Dag-Erling Sm繪rgrav wrote:
> By the way, as far as I know, FreeBSD already runs on machines with a
> non-power-of-two number of cores:
>
> - The AMD Opteron architecture supports an arbitrary number of cores in
> a HyperTransport ring; there are triple-socket Opteron motherboards,
> and AMD is expected to launch a triple-core Phenom this quarter.
>
> - The Sun UltraSPARC T1 (which runs FreeBSD/sun4v) is available with
> four, six and eight physical cores, each with four concurrent
> execution threads, giving a total of sixteen, twenty-four or
> thirty-two logical cores.
>
> DES
We also have run extensively on sparc e4500 systems with random numbers
of CPUs like 10, 12, and 14.
Kris
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