Big shared-memory x86 machines

Posted Apr 20, 2008 8:48 UTC (Sun) by joib (subscriber, #8541)
In reply to: Merge window opens, kgdb merged by trey
Parent article: Merge window opens, kgdb merged

That's correct, Altix ICE (and Altix XE) are clusters. Each 2-socket node runs its own kernel,
and there is no shared memory between nodes, so inter-node communication is with message
passing (MPI).

AFAIK all big shared-memory machines SGI makes are Itanium-based.

I suspect the answer to this conundrum is that this changeset just increases some previous
x86-only max-cpu limit, and the mention of 4096-way machines refers to the Itanium-based SGI
Altix.

Big shared-memory x86 machines

Posted Apr 22, 2008 12:46 UTC (Tue) by knan (subscriber, #3940) [Link]

There are development going on inside SGI for future and one-off machines, you know. The patch
came from a SGI employee, and definitely is for x86-64. While their current big boxes are
IA64, future machines doesn't need to be...