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

[Bran Tregare]

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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