Killer Micro Question

[Fred Bourgeois]

In article <16364 at s.ms.uky.edu> randy at ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) writes:
>I have been wondering how hard it would be to set up several
>of the new fast workstations as one big Mainframe.  For instance,
>imagine some SPARCstations/DECstations set up in a row, and called
>compute servers. [...]

You should look into the Solbourne (TM, I think) system's.  They use several
SPARC-based CPU's in a single multi-processor unit (I think they use up to
8 CPU's), which attempts to distribute the load as evenly as possible.

> [...] But please keep one of comp.arch or comp.unix.large [...]
Sorry, I couldn't post to either of those.

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