[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:08:35PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> >
> > Because it could be $2000 toward a good archetecture computer.
> 
> Someone once told me that Alphas do SMP by means of cross-bar switching.

i don't know about the Alphas, but the SGI Octane and Origin 2000 (and newer)
all use non-blocking crossbard switches.  amazing hardware.

-brian
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