Yousuf said:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16403
Looks like Sun is playing off Nvidia against Serverworks to get the cheapest
8-way chipset they can. Welcome to the commodity super-server era, brought
to you by AMD.
Hmmm. I see that I can't go on ignoring Opteron forever.
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The eight-way setups aren't glueless, as was originally advertised, or,
by a "chipset," do they mean just a South bridge? I'm so confused. As
if that weren't enough, in one of the articles linked to at the bottom,
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16389,
there is the mysterious statement
"Instead, according to the same sources, Tyan is likely to introduce an
eight way design by the end of the year which will wait for another
chipset, use PCI Express, and also support Infiniband PCI Express too."
*What* is "Infiniband PCI Express"? I suppose I could try to make some
progress on trying to understand what all this is about, but, in
observance of the 50th anniversary of Turing's death, I am spending the
day with Boolean Rings and Lattices.
RM