Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:10:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: bad@uhf.wireless.net, terry@lambert.org, smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? Message-ID: <199704281810.LAA02356@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <308.862250674@critter> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 28, 97 08:04:34 pm
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> >Didn't anyone ever notice those neat traces between the CPUs and other > >devices on the MB? The higher and higher you go in frequency, the shorter > >and shorter a wavelength becomes and the more and more these traces start > >to look like antennas. There's a physical limit as to how long these > >traces can be and this limit also affects how closely you can space CPUs, > >without setting up a CPU hierarchy. > > Uhm, we're about an order of magnitude from that point yet... Weber State University has a 32 processor Sequent box that would love to be able to run a free OS... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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