[TriLUG] Questions about Threading

[Chris Hedemark]

John,

The biggest Sun I know of now is the Sun Fire 15K
(http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire15k/)

The infamous E10K "only" scales to 64 processors.

If they had a 256 CPU machine I'd love to hear more about it.

CJH

JD writes:
> I stand corrected on the number of intel cpu's in a box.  After I saw the
> bit about 16 cpu's, I went and asked one of my colleagues.  He said he had
> heard of boxes supporting more than 4 but he didn't know the upper limit.
> He said 8 or 16 maybe the upper limit.  However, what is the upper limit
> for Sun boxes? I'm pretty sure they shipped some 256 cpu monsters and that
> is the point about their more complex (slower)  threads.  They are slower
> (compared to linux)  on boxes with a few cpu's, but with many cpu's they
> scream.