Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:15:13 -0600 From: Martin McGreal <freebsd@mcgreal.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AS4100 -- worth the effort? Message-ID: <200211012115.13390.freebsd@mcgreal.org> In-Reply-To: <200211012109.gA1L9i3a078240@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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The stable FreeBSD distribution does not yet utilize more than one processor on SMP alpha systems. However, I've been told you may install the 5.0 developer preview release, which has SMP support, but may be unreliable. On Friday 01 November 2002 03:09 pm, Garrett Wollman wrote: > I may have a free quad-processor AS4100 (with an unknown amount of > memory) land in my office soon. How much effort is it going to be > worth putting in to get this machine running FreeBSD? > > There are actually eight such machines in the former cluster, at least > one of which was non-functional. If you think you might want one and > can arrange to have it picked up in Cambridge, Mass., it may be > possible for you to get one or two. Please send me private mail if > you are interested and I'll talk with the people who are currently > involved in decommissioning the cluster. > > -GAWollman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the messagehelp
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