[rescue] howto make multiple main boards work on a Sun Sparc 670/MP

Kevin Loch rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jun 15 10:48:39 CDT 2001


Don't SunSwift cards work in 4/6xx?

G W Adkins wrote:
> 
> Ya know, I first postulated this idea in the presence of Mike and Dave about
> a year ago... two or four procs per board times six boards in a chassis,
> running as a beowulf cluster in a deskside chassis.
> You just need the boards, procs, and six dual attach FDDI s-bus boards for
> the cluster interconnect...
> 
> George
> 
> > Of course now this has me thinking in an evil way :) I have 7 or 8 4/600
> > system boards around here and a 4/670 chassis :)
> >
> > Of course I can here the electric company shouting with glee at this
> > prospect!
> >
> > > > "ok" prompt and you see an option called "vme-loopback?" then you ROMs
> > > > five 4/600 boards in a 690 chassis.
> > >
> 
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