[ale] forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem

[Jeff Haynie]

> 
> I believe the SGI folks are simply running Power Challenege Arrays which
> are several multiprocessors machiens connected via a HIPPI type bus but
> using shared memory on each machines. Basically take 4 16-processor
> machines connected via ATM speed connections and you can get great
> performance. Since you actuallly have 4 machiens, you got 4 real I/O ports
> and you have 16 processors on each machine to handle the large number of
> actually threads that you need.
> 

OK, now the dumb questions:

How would a company with a few thousand dollars to invest 
make something (no so eloborate as above) like this happen with Linux?

Linux isn't fully symmetric multiproccessing yet, correct?

Jeff
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