[rescue] pursuing a VAX

[Joshua Snyder]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Joshua Snyder wrote:

> > Actually the Xeon supports much bigger configurations than two-way.  I've
> > seen eight-way operating, but I'm sure they get even bigger than that.
> >
> > Peace...  Sridhar
>
> Sort of, yes you can get Quad P4 Xeons, but the Cpus them self only
> support 2-way Smp.  Anything above that and you have to use chipsets to
> glue the Cpu's together... hardly what I would call feature of the Cpu.
> Reminds me of a quad 486 I once saw, afaik the 486 didn't support smp at
> all. But the PIII Xeons could do 4-way Smp(just like the Ppro).
>
> 				josh
>

Wow, not five minutes after posting, here I am replying to my own message.
Apperently Intel makes a Xeon called "Xeon MP" that will support 4-way
smp.  The Xeon MP also has a L3 cache sized between 512KB-2MB.  But
according to Intel's website it is only available in speeds up to 2ghz.
So I don't know how current a product it is, I had never heard of it until
tonight!  But what I said about the normal Xeons is true, they only
support 2-way Smp.

				josh

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