Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support?

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2001 - 00:34:24 EST


Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107092315140.493-100000@faith.cs.utah.edu>
By author: Xinwei Xue <xwxue@cs.utah.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi,
>
> My research group is planning to buy a multi-processor linux machine
> for parallel computing. Does anyone know how many pentium processors the
> linux SMP support? Does it support 8(pentium-three) processors? What
> companies produce such reliable multi-processor (>4) machines? Thanks a
> lot!
>

It supports up to 32, if you can find a machine that has that many.

        -hpa

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