[ale] Quad-CPU Linux?

[vernard at cc.gatech.edu (Vernard Martin)]

> > Okay, that sounds like the 'Yes' part, what about the 'No' part?
> 
> Sorry. Yes it supports 4. No it doesn't even care. Now we never heavily
> loaded it. It did compile the kernel in about 2 minutes though.

Actually, that's not entirely true. When byron wasn't looking I managed to
port an atmospheric model chemical transport code over to it. Normally, we
run the model on a processor SGI Power CHallenge with 12 75Mhz R8000 cpus
in it. The 4 200Mhz pentium pros managed to hold its own against 8 of the
processors in the power challenge. I was mightily impressed. 

V
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Vernard Martin, High Performance Parallel Computation and Experimentation Lab
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College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332