From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Apr 28 12:44:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04061 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:44:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from INET-01-IMC.microsoft.com (mail1.microsoft.com [131.107.3.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04056 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail1.microsoft.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.14) id ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:44:06 -0700 Message-ID: <7D06B4AA8B39D011A64900805F682CDA014AAB4F@RED-09-MSG.dns.microsoft.com> From: Arlie Davis To: "'Terry Lambert'" Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:40:59 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.14) Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, the PPros are stackable up to four processors without additional glue. I think Intel calls groups of four processors "clusters". SMP with more than one cluster requires a lot of additional glue. -- arlie > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Lambert [SMTP:terry@lambert.org] > Sent: Monday, April 28, 1997 10:17 AM > To: black@zen.cypher.net > Cc: kory@avatar.com; brownie@earthling.net; csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk; > smp@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? > > The PPro's are stackable without additional electronics external > to the processor. This makes it a *lot* easier to do multiple > CPU's up to large numbers. > >