From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 1 19:15:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AB837B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:15:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from wolfman.mcgreal.org (dsl-64-129-43-129.telocity.com [64.129.43.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 021B543E77 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@mcgreal.org) Received: (qmail 23946 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2002 03:14:44 -0000 Received: from dracula.mcgreal.org (10.0.0.2) by wolfman.mcgreal.org with SMTP; 2 Nov 2002 03:14:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Martin McGreal Reply-To: martin@mcgreal.org To: Garrett Wollman , alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AS4100 -- worth the effort? Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:15:13 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <200211012109.gA1L9i3a078240@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200211012109.gA1L9i3a078240@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211012115.13390.freebsd@mcgreal.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The stable FreeBSD distribution does not yet utilize more than one proces= sor=20 on SMP alpha systems. However, I've been told you may install the 5.0=20 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 message