please, what is "round-robin"?
TIA!
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> De: Darin Martin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Asunto: Re: [expert] High level SMP systems...
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> From: Matthew Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 10:10 PM
> Subject: [expert] High level SMP systems...
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> > 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..
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