Re: Another one bites the dust

From: Per Ekman (pek_at_pdc.kth.se)
Date: 08/22/04

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    Date: 22 Aug 2004 12:43:55 +0200

    mapesdhs@yahoo.com (Ian Mapleson) writes:

    > "Benjamin Gawert" <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote:
    > > MIPS and SPARC have no light against Itanium, POWER and x86. ...
    >
    > Can I have a 2048-CPU Itanium machine then? Opps, sorry, no such thing.
    >
    > No problem with MIPS. Ask SGI, they'll do you won if you have the dosh.
    >
    > For scalability, SGI MIPS/IRIX is way ahead of everyone, by an order
    > of magnitude comapred to some vendors (single image, etc.)

    There's no way the scalability is tied to the MIPS chip (compared with
    the Itanium). Given that they share the same system architecture the
    scaling is purely a OS issue. Yes, power consumption is an issue if
    you add space constraints but otherwise I'm pretty sure an Altix
    scales just as well as an O3k hardware-wise.

    *p

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