[SunRescue] Multiprocessor intel boards (hate to interrupt the flamewar)

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They support dual as I understand it, am I wrong?
	Nick

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Bran Tregare wrote:

> Can't use more than one in a multi-proc machine though :(
> 
> At 09:03 PM 4/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >It sounds like they are not.  I am not as familiar with the compaqs, and
> >now that I look they appear to be nonstandard.  However it is still
> >looking at.  For anyone with ppros, the PPro upgrade intel put out is
> >starting to come down in price, all the bennies of a 333mhz pii + all the
> >bennies of a PPro (full speed l2).
> >         Nick
> >
> >On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Bran Tregare wrote:
> >
> > > What speed of PPro do you have for that box?  I may be able to point 
> > you to
> > > inexpensive VRM's if they are the standard ppro vrm.
> > >
> > > At 07:52 PM 4/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >I've never seen a quad proc system take anything standard pretty
> > > >much.  The IO cards and memory are sometimes standard.  If your quad ppro
> > > >box is even slightly likley to boot I'd recommend playing with that, as
> > > >most VRMs run ~20$ for ppros (When you can find them).
> > > >         Nick
> > > >
> > > >On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Robert Novak wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I hate to interrupt the little flamewar about Linux with a question 
> > that
> > > > > might actually be worth the bandwidth... okay, I actually like to, 
> > but it
> > > > > sounds more deferential to the people wasting my diskspace with 
> > Irix and
> > > > > Linux holy wars to say it the former way...
> > > > >
> > > > > Someone wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > Linux is known not to scale well on SMP systems - this might 
> > come as a
> > > > > > > suprise to you, but not many Linux developers have 32way machines
> > > > at their
> > > > > > > disposal to test with! .. 2.4 is better, and improvements will
> > > > continue to
> > > > > > > be made. Why does that upset you so much?
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have real life experience or recommended resources for 
> > getting
> > > > > Intel architecture motherboards that take more than two processors? 
> > I have
> > > > > a Compaq quad pentium pro system that requires a handful of VRM-type
> > > > > modules (and it's not worth $200+ to find out if it works), and a quad
> > > > > 486 box with a dead power supply.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd rather find something more conventional with 4 processors... can be
> > > > > Socket 5, Socket 7, Socket 8, Slot 1, PGA370... I suspect 
> > anything >2 cpu
> > > > > will require special power supplies, but a guy can hope, right?
> > > > >
> > > > > --Rob (who chuckled when he saw the SunBlade 100 had a PGA370 socketed
> > > > > processor along with the pretty PC colored ports )
> > > > >
> > > > > Robert Novak, Indyramp Consulting * rnovak at indyramp.com *
> > > > indyramp.com/~rnovak
> > > > >         "And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
> > > > >            Maybe this year will be better than the last...." --
> > > > counting crows
> > > > >
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