Re: HP Webcast this morning on Next-Generation Intel Itanium 2 processors

From: Bradford J. Hamilton (brad_at_.gateway.2wire.net)
Date: 07/03/03 

Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:40:57 GMT

In article <lvCcnfzUXKQmM56iXTWJjg@metrocast.net>, "Bill Todd" <billtodd@metrocast.net> writes:
>
<snip>>
>My impression is that the concept (and implementation) of hard partitioning
>long predates any DECpaq implementation: it has been a feature of IBM
>mainframes for quite a while, and I think moved into some other
>non-mainframe systems before it came to DECpaq.
>
>Galaxy's significant contribution was IIRC softer partitioning, including
>the ability to migrate individual processors dynamically from one partition
>to another in tens of microseconds, thus opening the door to *extremely*
>fine-grained dynamic load-balancing. So one good question would be whether
>the Itanic MP hardware will continue to support this feature.
>

Thanks for the corrections from you and Rob. I was a little frustrated that
I had heard the announcement about partitoning, but heard no mention of
OpenVMS, hence my comment tacked on the end.
 
I'm glad to hear that hp will support OpenVMS in that space (Superdome) in the
future, contingent on Dale's qualification in his response to my inquiry. As
you state above, Galaxy (APMP?) in that environment would be interesting, if it
were supported.

>- bill

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