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Re: Where are HP's marketing & technical teams?
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Greg Cagle <[log in to unmask]>
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Greg Cagle <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:47:02 -0600
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 F. Alfredo Rego wrote:
> At 11:33 AM -0800 1/31/03, John Clogg wrote:
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>
>>The reason HP isn't mentioned is because the PA-RISC machines don't use
>>NUMA.
>
>
> Excellent point, but PA-RISC is dead.  I would be interested
> in learning about Itanium.  We need all the info we can get
> before plunging into these HP 64-fathom depths.

SGI has announced a 64-way NUMA Itanium II server:

http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/

And it runs Linux. There's an interesting article in
this past month's Linux Journal by the project manager
detailing some of the mods to Linux required to support
the machine. It was non-trivial 8^)

--
Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com

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