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Date:	Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:31:24 -0800
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OT from an XP list

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The last large (massively parallel) computer I worked on
(at AT&T/NCR/Teradyne, circa 1995) had multiple 4-way
processor boards (4 processors/CPU board). Each processor
bay could accommodate up to 8 boards and the bays themselves
could be paralleled up to ~256 (max) processors, IIRC.

....
Probably too big/expensive for a home office. It required
3-phase power and 5500W per cabinet. I'm pretty sure my
home air conditioner could not keep up. ;-))

Processing power has doubled about 7 times since then.

-- Steve

+++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Steven Levine wrote, in part:
>On 01/18/07, Ray Davison said:
>
>>"can i configure my pc to have two motherboards at the same time.
>>i have pentium 4 processor 1.8 GHz and would like to add another
>>motherboard with a quad core processor. plz help me out."
>
>This may sound a bit odd, but it's not all that far fetched. We may
>start to see passive backplanes with multiple CPUs on separate boards
>sharing the processing load in the consumer PC space. This is already a
>typical architecture in high-performance industrial and scientific
>computing.
>
>Steven
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