In article <etmvgu$72q$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>,
Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> wrote:

> On 2007-03-19 20:49:10 +0000, Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> said:
>
> > What is Rock? I somehow doubt it competes with Opteron.
>
> It's the big-server multicore chip. I was including it in my
> `Niagara-derived' set somewhat bogusly, which has lead to confusion:
> sorry. I really should have said something like "CMT SPARCs".
>
> >
> > As a largely uninformed person, I tend to agree with Tim. Seems to me
> > it's either Opteron or Niagara and the rest will die.
>
> Neither have any serious support for big multi-CPU machines, I think -
> I don't think Niagara has any at all, and (from limited knowledge) I
> suspect no x86/x64 processor scales beyond 4 or 8 sockets.

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