Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:25:09 -0500 From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org> To: PicoBSD List <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Anti-Pico: FreeBSD SMP MAINFRAME need some hints Message-ID: <3C20DB85.4070505@aurora.regenstrief.org>
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Hi, I'm deliberately posting to the wrong list here, because I know you're good guys :-). I am looking for the antithesis of your typical PicoBSD platform. I'm looking for a scaleable PCI SMP mainframe based on x86 or whatever runs FreeBSD. If you know something for other *BSDs or Linux I'm all ears too. I'm thinking of a backplane where you can plug in anything from 1 to 6 (or more) x86 CPU cards. Then have same flexibility with memory plug in and go. All CPUs accessing the same RAID cluster. All behaves just like a multi CPU x86 box, just more scaleable. In addition it would be nice to not be limited to the current state of the art in clock speed. I'm sure 2 GB x86 CPUs are around the corner (or already there?) and you don't want to buy a mainframe system to let it be passed by your peoples more recent laptops in a year. (I own some VAX 6000s and it's just neat how you can plug CPUs and memory in and out of the XMI bus, so, that's where the idea comes from :-) The application is a database server, based on PostgreSQL aspiring to run some demanding OLTP and data-warehouse applications. May be mainframes are not the answer any more, but I think as x86 CPUs now come in multi CPU boxes it would be nice to have some scaleability here. What do you think? -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow@regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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