From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 9 14:26:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA12093 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu (dayton@louis.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu [146.245.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA12081 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu) Received: (from dayton@localhost) by sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu (8.8.7/8.8.4) id RAA18006; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:25:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:25:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712092225.RAA18006@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> From: Dayton Clark To: garbanzo@hooked.net CC: smp@csn.net, current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Alex on Mon, 8 Dec 1997 22:57:19 -0800 (PST)) Subject: 8CPUs Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk IBM has advertised an 8 cpu server for several years. I was never able to get anyone to give me a quote though. There is a French organization (or company) that implemented a multi-pentium connection scheme. I think it is called the CBUS. As I remember, it's an interesting system, but totally incompatible with the Intel MP stuff. dayton >>>>> "Alex" == Alex writes: Alex> On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Steve Passe wrote: >> rtld was broken on december 3rd, causing emacs to die. OI think it >> was fixed by the 5th or 6th. >> >> I'm at a loss about the other 2 problems. They may be related to 4 >> CPUs, but I have been TOTALLY unsuccessful in getting access to a 4 >> CPU machine for testing. Show of hands, anyone successfully running >> SMP on 4 or more CPUs? Alex> Speaking of more CPUs, did anyone catch the release of Alex> HP's newest SMP server? An 8 CPU (I'm assuming PPro) *drool*. Alex> I'm assuming it comes with gobs of ram and disk space, and it Alex> amusingly enough looked like an overgrown dot-matrix printer with Alex> no paper. I didn't realize there were production machines with Alex> more than 4 Intel CPUs *drool*. Alex> - alex