i forget who made it.. i belive intel custom made it for a supercomputer startup.. i belive it had something to do with one of cray's partners.. i'll see if I can still get ahold of it.. it's not an item that moves very fast.. (wanted too much for it) Thank You, Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] | Unix/Linux Consulting | [ Haiku Error Message: ] | PC/Mac Repair | [ Chaos reigns within. ] | Networking | [ Reflect, repent, and reboot. ] | http://nerp.net | [ Order shall return. ] *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > I have also seen >2 processor PPro systems, and I even looked at > > purchasing a 16 processor Pentium classic 166mhz system, i doubt it's > > still around, but it was an interesting machine. > > what make/model was it? > would have been an interesting thing to play with. :) > > anyone have any idea what a 32-processor Sequent (now IBM NUMA-Q) server costs these days? > > Linux 2.4 has a hard limit of 32 processors on 32-bit archs, 64 procs on > 64-bit architectures. (tho they're going to try to fix that for 2.5) > something to do with word-sized processor numbers in a couple of places in > the code. > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org