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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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> I expect to have 16-32 CPUs in my $3000 desktop in 5 years .  If you all
> start planning for that now, you might get it debugged before it happens
> to me.;-)

Thank you ... some sanity amongst the crowd

> I don't expect to connect the 16-32 CPUs with ethernet.... but it won't
> surprise me if they have non-uniform memory.

Indeed. Just look at AMD hammer for NUMA effects, and SMT and multiple
chip on die technologies for the way things are going.

M.


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