On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> Back to the original topic of MP KA630. There is an other option too:
> Individual KA630 with private memory using the QBus as cluster
> interconnect and shared IO bus?
> Or some kind of NUMA? Say we have 4 KA630 with 16 MB each. Each KA630
> gets 4 MB "local" RAM and the other 12 MB as "cache" for the local ram
> of the other 3 CPUs?
> But I think it would be easier to get a VAXstation 3540 and port NetBSD
> to it to get "desk side VAX SMP". (Hmm. How big is a 8200?)

   An 8200 uses a BA32 BI-bus chassis...which is a 6U rackmount box.  
It's actually quite small.  They're *always* mounted in a short rack, 
though, which causes people to think "a VAX 8200 is a rack".  These are 
usually the same people who say "a Sun3/280 is six feet tall!" ;)

          -Dave

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