> IBM's Sequent servers are NUMA machines, not SMP. (That's > why they bought Sequent - for the NUMA tech.) As I understood it, NUMA is just one SMP architecture (among others,like ccNUMA, or COMA). it uses a number of identical processors, so shouldn't it still be called Symmetric Multi-Processing? (as opposed to Asymmetric Multi-Processing). 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