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To: kapkan4u who wrote (69867)	8/25/1999 1:57:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575795

Re: "The article talks about Profusion SMP. I was talking about GTL+ SMP." Kap, all P6 generation processors use GTL+. Why would Profusion be any different? EP

To: kapkan4u who wrote (69867)	8/25/1999 2:30:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575795

<The article talks about Profusion SMP. I was talking about GTL+ SMP.> It's no secret that the P6 GTL+ bus only goes up to 4-way. Any Intel-based server that goes above 4-way will have to use multiple buses. Profusion has three. Two buses are for processors (four processors per bus), and one connects up to I/O bridges. According to ZDNet's ServerBench tests on Compaq's new Profusion-based server, there was a 61% increase in peak performance with eight processors over four. That's pretty good scalability. Tenchusatsu