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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (125533)1/18/2001 7:24:22 PM
From: Tony Viola  Respond to of 186894
 
Ten, >So even 8-way SMP servers are considered "commodity" compared to what's out there already. Think you can do better by networking 192 single-processor Athlon boxes?

Isn't that the Beowolf (sp?) concept?

Tony



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (125533)1/18/2001 11:35:59 PM
From: Dan3  Respond to of 186894
 
Re: So even 8-way SMP servers are considered "commodity" compared to what's out there already. Think you can do better by networking 192 single-processor Athlon boxes?

They're working on it:
KLAT2, Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2, is a 64+2 700MHz Athlon cluster using a variety of our system hardware and software performance tricks, including a 264-NIC + 9 switch implementation of the new Flat Neighborhood network topology. It was built in April 2000.
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