Re: Switchless Opteron clusters

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Myers  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 27 Nov 2003 09:15:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
>
>>Well, I was at a talk yesterday, and a few things were clarified.
>>
>>It seems that the limit of 8 CPUs is an addressing constraint in the
>>current design, HyperTransport pass-through  does not touch memory or 
>>the CPU (as one would hope) and that there is no reason that a HT
>>tunnel should not be a simple switch.
>>
>You mean, like this:
>
>http://www.commsdesign.com/new_products/OEG20011113S0049 ?

Quite possibly, but I would have to study the details to be sure.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.