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To: jim kelley who wrote (23558)11/29/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Robert  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 64865
 
1000 way servers?

Hmmm... I wouldn't count my chickens too early
considering the competition on multiway systems.
Sun's story is more complicated than just big boxes.

Compaq's Wildfire (up to 1000 cpus?)
theregister.co.uk

Silicon Graphics Origin 2000 (2 to 512 cpus, now available):
sgi.com



To: jim kelley who wrote (23558)11/29/1999 9:10:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 64865
 
WOW! 1000 way SMP servers.... Awesome...

No big deal ... the second computer I wrote code for was the Illiac IV which was 256 processors ... and that was in 1966!