For a project I may need a SMP motherboard with the following specs:
1. 3 processors.
2. Linux support is mandatory.
3. Processors from Intel or its competitors - advantage (i.e. Alpha,
Sparc, etc. are at disadvantage).
As of now, I am not familiar with the Israeli market of such workhorses.
I would like to know if and where are the following:
1. Vendors
2. Israel based mailing lists/discussion groups
3. Users who have the time, knowledge and inclination to give advice to a
newcomer.
I never worked with SMP but I do believe that the following LDP docs can get
you started:
4.1.7. Parallel Processing
Parallel-Processing-HOWTO, Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO
Updated: January 1998. Discusses the four basic approaches to parallel
processing that are available to Linux users: SMP Linux systems,
clusters of networked Linux systems, parallel execution using
multimedia instructions (i.e., MMX), and attached (parallel) processors
hosted by a Linux system.
SMP-HOWTO, Linux SMP HOWTO
Updated: October 2000. Reviews main issues related to SMP
configuration under Linux.
Just to emphasize: although
1. I have no SMP experience
2. I never read those docs
3. it does not seem directly related to what you were asking about,
if I were you I would consider starting with those.
I hope it helpful.
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Pasha Zusmanovich wrote:
Marc A. Volovic wrote:
In any case, I _am_ refering to non-ia{32,64} architechtures, myself
being an owner of an SS5, SS20 and a non-functional Alpha 21164 (which
lacks memory and motherboard ;-).
You are right that there are no Israel-specific issues with non-Redmond
(or, rather, Santa Clara) hardware. However, a foot-and-mouth count of
people who have such beasts at home would be nice, as well as possible
pooling of semi-defunct hardware into something that may be used.
uh. it would be nice indeed (speaking as proud owner of (totally)
nonfunctional sun-1 (sic!)). this is somewhat orthogonal to linux
though, so I doubt this list would be a good place for it.
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