Re: ADSM and n-way RS/6000's
1998-11-02 13:08:15
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Re: ADSM and n-way RS/6000's |
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Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> |
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Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:08:15 -0500 |
>So multiple CPUS would be better than a faster one?
Our experience with RS/6000 R3U systems is that the concurrency you get
with multiple processors is much better than having a single processor,
even if in our case the individual PPC 604 processors are individually
somewhat slower than a single Power2 system would be. Stuff an MP with
memory to correlate with the number of processors, and caching will do
nicely. The limiting factor will be I/O speed: MP systems tend to have
multiple I/O planar boards to help out in that respect such that the
system bus is not tied up by one processor at a time.
Richard Sims, BU
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