Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:31:16 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org> Cc: PicoBSD List <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anti-Pico: FreeBSD SMP MAINFRAME need some hints Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10112191929080.7755-100000@kim.ispra.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <3C20DB85.4070505@aurora.regenstrief.org>
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Check out the products from OmniCluster; SlotServer 1000/3000 etc. They are basically PCI cards with a CPU - but with a virtual scsi/ethernet interface to each other and/or to a master/motherboard cpu. Dw On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote: > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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