Re: Plan 9 grids with AMD64 CPUs

Christopher Nielsen <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:06:59 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.nine-grid
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At first glance, this didn't seem right, since AMD claims
you can only have 8-way Opteron systems using HyperTransport.
Upon further reading, OctigaBay is using their own interconnect.
Interesing...

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:17:24PM -0700, mirtchov-o/MP3MtDmzouExZ/[email protected] wrote:
> the OctigaBay 12K brochure they got me from Super Computing '03
> certainly sounds impressive: 12 opterons in a 3U, 12 of those in
> a rack, up to 12,000 overall, theoretically...
> 
> i can't find their web site right now, but here's a PRarticle:
> 
> 	www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20031103S0063
> 
> i'd like to see plan9 run on at least one of those racks... 

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