[TriLUG] Questions about Threading

[Adrian Likins]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:07:45PM -0500, Adrian Likins wrote:

	forgot to mention, that as far as I know,
none of these run linux in any fashion except for
the numaQ's...
 

Adrian


> 	Well, seems like sequent^H^H^H IBM numaQ boxes
> are good for 64 pIII's (and I've heard rumours of SCO
> actaully running on that hardware...). 
> 
> 	SGI claims the Origin 2000 series can go
> to 512 processors (http://www.sgi.com/origin/2000/).
> I'm no big hardware expert, but I belive those fall
> somewhere between a "mainframe" and a cluster. I
> belive those are based on the same design ideas
> as the sun e10k's (iirc, these were based on
> a cray design that was bought by SGI and then
> sold to sun). But I could easily be wrong...
> 
> 	hp superdomes seem to fit into about
> the same range as e10k's and friends.
> http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/scalableservers/superdome/specifications.html
> 
> 	It seems like at one point Tandem
> had 64way mips based machines as well, but that
> may be ancient history.
> 
> 	The fujistu prime power2000 claims 128
> cpu smp support. It appears to be a big honking
> sparc/solaris box. Wouldnt surpise me if it's
> the same arch as the e15k's
> http://primepower.fujitsu.com/en/m2000.html
> http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=101082801
> 
> 	unisys and NCR/Teradata both have 64-128
> processor x86 based machines as well. The Teradata
> worldmark.
> 
> btw, a great place to browse for big hardware is
> the tpc benchmark results, see http://www.tpc.org