Re: SMP scalability: 8 -> 32 CPUs
Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
1 Dec 1998 08:10:52 +0100
Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz> writes:
>
> > With all this talk of Linux not scaling past 8 CPUs, does this
>
> Linux runs on the AP1000+. (Check arch/sparc/ap1000).
> Check out http://cap.anu.edu.au/cap/projects/linux/ for more details.
>
Cool box, but not a SMP system from the POV of the Linux kernel (as you can
apparently do DMA to other CPU's memory, but not access it transparently).
Looks more like Beowulf-on-steroids to me.
(Not that that is a bad thing, of course... :-)
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