Hi all -- A year or so ago I picked up a VAXStation 3520 (a dual-processor machine), which I eventually upgraded to a 3540 (quad processor). Then I heard rumor it was possible to get it up to 6 processors, a configuration that was never produced or supported by DEC. I can confirm that 6 processors do work properly. As do 8 processors, for that matter...
I believe that if I remove the graphics option, I can get it up to 10 processors, at which point I'm out of MBUS slots, thus hitting the maximum possible. I just kinda want to see it work. I'm still looking for something "useful" to do with 10 processors on VMS; it's a shame there was never a distributed.net client for VAX VMS :). I'm having trouble tracking down one more L2001 processor board. Anyone have one lying around they'd like to donate to a very stupid cause? Thanks, Josh (here's the output from the VAX 3580's startup with 8 processors: KA60 V1.2 F..E..D..C..B..A..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1..0 5 01010004 L2003 4 ? V1.3 1 SSC 00000001 2 DZ 00031200 ? 3 NI 19210770 ? 4 SCSI 00000901 5 SYS 00000001 Tests completed. 00-E1,P1 03-E1,P1 08-E1,P1 0B-E1,P1 0C-E1,P1 0F-E1,P1 10-E1,P1 13-E1,P1 00 CPU00 >>>
