Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing

["Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:57 +0100, Paweł Lasek wrote:
> >  I take it that you really do mean "simultaneous". As in: you actually
> >  have hundreds of cores available on the same system. I'm actually
> >  quite curious to find out what's the highest number of cores available
> >  of a single shared memory systems that you, or anybody else has
> >  experienced in practice so far (mine would be 32 == 8 CPUs x 4 cores AMD
> >  Barcelona)? Now even more important question is -- what are the
> >  expectations for, this number in 5 years from now?
> >
> 
> Actually, with parts available from AMD you can directly mesh up to 64
> sockets, each with (currently) 4 cores, 8 core cpu announced (as MCP
> in the beginning). And there were available methods for routing HT
> traffic with number of sockets nearing thousands or tens of thousands.
> Dunno if they used it directly with cache coherency protocol though.

Understood. Although, what I meant was a practical hands-on experience.
So that the war stories can be told. Otherwise, on the SPARC side, I'd
be able to claim 128 in Sun's M9000.

Thanks,
Roman.