Thanks all,
I have been informed that there is SMP support on Sparc and
Alpha, but no one has mentioned any performace boosts from this.
I heard / read that Titanic used Alphas running Linux for
rendering. I am guessing that this was clustering, not SMP.
Does anyone running an SMP Alpha or Sparc Linux Server?
--- "Charles P. Provencher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I have sadly discovered recently (see dicussion "ALR
> Revolution Q-SMP"
> on 1999/07/15) on X86 there practically only is Intel that is
> the
> standard for SMP.
>
> There is another standard but no X86 motherboard manufacturer
> supports it.
>
> I had been told that maybe the AMD K6-III might try to emulate
> the Intel
> APIC, but I got the confirmation that AMD has not followed
> through on
> this experiment.
>
> I have found that Gordan Bobic (regular member of the list) to
> be very
> knowledgable on this subject.
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles.
>
> >It seems that all the post on the SMP mailing list are on the
> Intel
> >plaform. Is this because Intel is the only platform that
> supports SMP?
> >If SMP is supported on other platforms what are those
> platforms? And
> >what performance has anyone gotton from these platforms?
> >
> >I would seriously consider buying a non Intel box like
> Alpha/Linux if it
> >supports SMP.
> >
> >--
> >Joseph Acosta ........ SMP Linux 2.2.10 / RedHat 6.0
> >
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> Charles P. Provencher
> Montreal, QC, Canada
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>
>
>
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