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To: fyo who wrote (63621)	6/28/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

FYO - Re: "Doesn't NT support 8-way systems? " I think NT 4 supports (directly) a cluster (2-way) of 4-way Pentium II/III/Xeons - not strictly an 8-way system. Paul

To: fyo who wrote (63621)	6/28/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

Doesn't NT support 8-way systems? I was under the strong impression that it did, but since I've never researched the issue myself (no 8-way anything on the horizon for me) I cannot be sure. --fyodor --- NT Server 4.0 supports up to 4 CPUs; NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition supports up to 8 CPUs. Versions of NTSEE that support up to 32 processors are available through the hardware manufacturers who offer such machines. NTSEE has some pretty solid benchmarks on 8-way systems - see microsoft.com for the following: "NEW YORK - June 22, 1999 - Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer Corp. and Unisys Corp. today announced at PC Expo that Microsoft® SQL Server™ 7.0 Enterprise Edition running on new eight-processor systems achieved world-record performance results on the Windows NT® Server 4.0 operating system Enterprise Edition for the SAP R/3 sales and distribution (SD) benchmark and the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark. At 4,512 SD users, the result of the SAP R/3 benchmark tops the previous best Microsoft SQL Server result by 88 percent and establishes a new record on the Windows NT Server platform. At 37,757.23 transactions per minute (tpmC), the result of the TPC-C benchmark - the computer industry's standard method of measuring transaction processing performance - tops the previous best SQL Server result by 51 percent and sets a new record result for the Windows NT Server platform and SMP hardware. Furthermore, the cost per transaction for the TPC-C benchmark was $23.18 per tpmC, which represents the best price/performance result ever for any server with more than four processors." What Paul may be referring to is that Windows 2000 has a superior "scaling factor" - it gets more benefit from each additional CPU than NT4 does. - Eric