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Subject: Re: SMP/cc Cluster description [was Linux/Pro]
To: Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:06:07 +0000 (GMT)
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> If I give you 16 SMP systems, each with 4 processors and a gigabit
> ethernet card, and connect those ethers through a switch, would that
> be sufficient hardware?

Take a 16 CPU numa box thats really 4x4 + numa glue and run it as if it
was the 4 processors, 4 nodes with gige, only allowing for extra operations
"take access to remote page" "release access to remote page"

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