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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (67393)	10/26/1998 1:18:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) of 186894

In theory, you can have an infinite amount of K7's or Xeons in one big-iron server if the system is designed to support all those processors. Correct. The most powerful supercomputer in the world is a massively parallel Pentium Pro machine at Sandia National Labs. Most of the internal communications are accomplished via a network which sends messages from one small group of processors to another. As you add more CPUs to a parallel system, it becomes increasingly efficient to use a network type crossbar rather than trying to jam lots of processors onto a single bus. So there really is no theoretical limit to the amount of K7's you can put in a system. Scumbria

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