> IBM's Sequent servers are NUMA machines, not SMP.  (That's
> why they bought Sequent - for the NUMA tech.)

As I understood it, NUMA is just one SMP architecture (among others,like
ccNUMA, or COMA). it uses a number of identical processors, so shouldn't it
still be called Symmetric Multi-Processing? (as opposed to Asymmetric
Multi-Processing).

Carl Soderstrom
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Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
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