1 Million users.. I can't Scale!!

[Christos Georgiou]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:58:15 -0400, rumours say that Jeff Schwab
<jeffrey.schwab at rcn.com> might have written:

>For many (most?) applications in need of 
>serious scalability, multi-processor servers are preferable.  IBM has 
>eServers available with up to 64 processors each, and Sun sells E25Ks 
>with 72 processors apiece.

SGI offers modular single-image Itanium2 servers of up to 512 CPU at the
moment:

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/configs.html

And NASA have clustered 20 of these machines to create a 10240 CPU
cluster...

>I like to work on those sorts of machine 
>when possible.  Of course, they're not right for every application, 
>especially since they're so expensive.

And expensive they are :)
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