Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:17:06 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP in 2.4 (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104182313560.1685-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010418190439.03633920@mail.etinc.com>
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Dennis wrote: > >You think Intel isn't going to market dual/quad ia64 machines? > > Yes, but who'll need them? If nobody needed them, what would be the point in SELLING them ? I know you don't trust our technical instinct, but you might at least consider the business instinct of companies like Intel, IBM or Unisys (who all sell big SMP systems). Besides, there are LOTS of people who need tomorrow's performance yesterday. There will always be a big market for overpowered, overpriced SMP systems... And as for the "but you can wait 2 years until UP is faster than today's SMP" doesn't quite work for eg. investment banking and stock funds. More computing power means better calculations, which means more money. And for folks like them, computing power is not measured in FLOPS, but in ACRES. And when you're talking 3 acres of computing power, you'd better have some decend density (ie. SMP in 2U rackmounted boxes, or something similarly suitable). regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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