> With all this talk of Linux not scaling past 8 CPUs, does this
> imply that Linux will never be ported to the connection machine?
> It is Sparc based after all.
The connection machine combines a vast array of 1-bit processors and a
modified N-dimensional router network into a SIMD architecture. It cannot do
symmetric multiprocessing (other than simulating it, of course). And FYI, it
is not sparc based, never has been, and (RIP) never will be; it uses some
very custom silicon driven by a specialized microcontroller. Yours truly
designed the original CM-1 microcontroller documented in the DARPA proposal,
and its first host-bus interface.
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