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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: treetopflier who wrote (11711)	11/16/1998 11:42:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Yes I believe you can buy a 64-node E10000 today, and Sun will supposedly be along with the capability to cluster 4 of them together for a 256-CPU cluster RSN. (By the way the E10000 also does dynamic reconfiguration, one if its big selling points...you can run old and new versions of the OS at the same time, dedicate blocks of processors to applications, etc.) I think the chances of Sun's buying Sequent are pretty slim. I don't think Sun wants to do NUMA. That's probably because, for some reason, Sun seems to be the only one able to scale just fine with a 64-bit symmetric MP, and their clustering story will be very good (and probably a shot in the arm for the stock if they spin it right for the Street). Regards, --QwikSand