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Re: Multiprocessor Linux boxes



On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:48:29PM -0600, Raiz-mpx wrote:
> From: Johann Koenig <explosive@hvc.rr.com>
> >The ultimate in SMP is, of course, Sun Computers. Hundreds of CPUs,
> >Hundreds of Gigs of RAM, Hundreds of thousands of dollars.

...or the cheaper alternative... racks of Playstation 2s, running
Linux. (Found this on dead-tree, but I'm sure Google would find it.)

> You need to ask yourself just what kind of numerical modeling are you 
> going to do?  What programs are you going to use, will they be able 
> to use both cpu's? 

FWIW tochnog (which is in Debian) can handle multiprocessor systems.

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