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To: Tony Viola who wrote (7788)	2/17/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: Babu Arunachalam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

>>>>> I didn't say anything about performance. Your question was about scalability of NT and is it > 4 CPUs. The answer is that, with clustering, yes. >>>>> Theoritically YES for sure. Theoritically NT could scale to thousands of processors but what about reality? I wonder if there's a real world server that scales beyond 4 CPUs at present. Cheers, Babu

To: Tony Viola who wrote (7788)	2/17/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: THop	Respond to of 64865

Actually, I have ran NT on 8 processor machines. You have to use a OEM version of NT. Benchmarks that have been run shows some scalabilty, not as good as UNIX but it is scaleable. The numbers I have seen are: 4 CPUS - 1.00x 8 CPUS - 1.60x NT 5.0 is rumored to scale well to 32 processors. I work everyday with both NT and UNIX. I have worked in UNIX for over 15 years and still prefer UNIX to NT. I have to agree with an earlier post, I wouldn't get on an airplane if it was controlled by NT...