From owner-freebsd-smp Tue May 20 10:01:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13245 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enst.enst.fr (enst.enst.fr [137.194.2.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA13240 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from email.enst.fr (email.enst.fr [137.194.168.17]) by enst.enst.fr (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA01349 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 19:00:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nikopol.enst.fr (nikopol.enst.fr [137.194.168.105]) by email.enst.fr (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA15145; Tue, 20 May 1997 18:59:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from fenyo@localhost) by nikopol.enst.fr (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA05618; Tue, 20 May 1997 18:59:56 +0200 (MET DST) To: smp@freebsd.org X-WWW: http://home.eowyn.fr.eu.org/~fenyo/documents/axel.html X-PGP-Key: finger alex@eowyn.fr.eu.org X-NIC-Handle: AF713 X-Whois: whois -h whois.internic.net fenyo X-Pager: 06-04-30-75-94 (for emergency only) Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? References: From: fenyo@email.enst.fr (Alex Fenyo (eowyn)) Date: 20 May 1997 18:59:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: Bernie Doehner's message of Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:44:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.50/XEmacs 19.14 Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bernie Doehner writes: > > Personally, I'd like a 32 processor machine; of course, that means > > fixing the kernel so that it doesn't bog down on interprocessor > > synchronization, starting with the allocation mechanism and a > > hierarchical lock manager. > > And finding a way to build a 3-D motherboard. No need to build a 3-D motherboard to have 32 processors in one machine. The compact-PCI standart defines a PCI interface for racks, in which you may plug several motherboards. A rack of 8 motherboards containing each 4 processors lead to a 32 processors machine. Sincerly, Alexandre Fenyo