Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:15:13 -0600 From: Martin McGreal <freebsd@mcgreal.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AS4100 -- worth the effort? Message-ID: <200211012115.13390.freebsd@mcgreal.org> In-Reply-To: <200211012109.gA1L9i3a078240@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200211012109.gA1L9i3a078240@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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The stable FreeBSD distribution does not yet utilize more than one proces= sor=20 on SMP alpha systems. However, I've been told you may install the 5.0=20 developer preview release, which has SMP support, but may be unreliable. On Friday 01 November 2002 03:09 pm, Garrett Wollman wrote: > I may have a free quad-processor AS4100 (with an unknown amount of > memory) land in my office soon. How much effort is it going to be > worth putting in to get this machine running FreeBSD? > > There are actually eight such machines in the former cluster, at least > one of which was non-functional. If you think you might want one and > can arrange to have it picked up in Cambridge, Mass., it may be > possible for you to get one or two. Please send me private mail if > you are interested and I'll talk with the people who are currently > involved in decommissioning the cluster. > > -GAWollman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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