[geeks] Drool-worthy

[Mike Meredith]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:09:17 -0500, velociraptor wrote:
> Ignore the PC stuff in the intro, and get right to the meat info and
> pics of Crays.  Anyone care to comment on the accuracy of the PC
> geek's article?

I'm too tired to do it justice (just back from the 2nd of a 3 day AIX
course), but :-

* It implies that the Origin2000 was one of the first NUMA systems. I
  don't believe it was ... Sequent and similar was far earlier. The
  ccNUMA architecture did address some weaknesses of the NUMA
  architecture.

* The AMD Opteron is a NUMA system ? I suppose it might have on chip
  support for some NUMA architecture, but surely NUMA is more the system
  than just the CPU ?

* It mentions the StarFire as being designed by Cray. Wasn't it just
  the CS6400(?) designed by Cray ? Admittedly the E10K is quite
  different to the other USII Enterprise line.