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From: Matthew Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Expert Mandrake List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 10:10 PM
Subject: [expert] High level SMP systems...
> Does anyone know of any board manufacturer who makes a quad way SMP intel
> P2/3 motherboard?
>
> Thx
>
The standard P-II/P-III chips will not work in 4 or 8 way configurations
because of limitations in the LX, BX, and i820 chipsets. The 450 NX and GX
chipsets will allow up to 8 way SMP, but those are chipsets that will only
work with the more expensive Xeon processors that are slot 2 instead of slot
1.
It would be theoretically possible to make P-II and P-III chips work in 4 or
8 way SMP, but it would require a custom motherboard design. ALR used to do
things like that.. I don't know if they still do. You might try checking
with them.
Companies like Tyan, ASUS, Abit, etc... probably would not want to invest
the time and money in developing something that is not very mainstream.
Just curious.. Why not go with a clustered approach with round-robin.. Or a
Beowulf style approach? Either way.. You'll get there for a lot less money
than an expensive 4 way solution..
>
