Re: number of Power 5 processors supported?

To: Jim Prewett <download@hpc.unm.edu>
Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: number of Power 5 processors supported?
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:45:30 +1100
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Hi,

> Does anyone know how many processors are supported on Power 5 SMP machines 
> with Linux?
> 
> I'm hoping to buy a 16 processor system and am cureous if theres any hope 
> of Linux being able to use all 16 procs.

Yes. We regularly boot POWER5 machines with 128 threads (64 way). 

Note that debian wont install out of the box but there is work ongoing
to fix that.

Anton

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