From: Eric Delcamp Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: parallel programming using a multiprocessor Pentium Date: 8 Jul 1999 23:33:49 GMT Organization: Wanadoo, l'internet avec France Telecom Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7m3cgt$9kd$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15711 Hi ! Karsten Scholtyssik a =E9crit dans le message <7km8mt$ndg$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu>... >You should be aware that most off-the-shelf PCs have a bad memory >subsystem. So if you are going to write memory intensive application= s >it is possible that your applications don't scale well. I don't know >if there are high-end PCs that use e.g. a crossbar to access the >memory. I think that Compaq build a quad PII Xeon (or PIII Xeon) with a crossbar for memory (technology taken from Digital ?). It's a new one, announced two or three weeks ago. By the way, take a look for the price of a PIII 500 Mhz Xeon, and think about building 4 of theses beasts.... --- Eric Delcamp....ICQ:34110772.......NetBSD i386 & Amiga, BeOS, Windows NT Merignac...........................Distributed.net : < 4600th (27/05/99) France.............................Magic the Gathering, Seti@Home http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.delcamp/ -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel