Of interest: Compact Beowulf? (fwd)

["Richard H. Fifarek" <rfifarek@som.siu.edu>]

Subject: Of interest: Compact Beowulf?

Synergy Microsystems Runs SMP Linux on Quad-G3 PowerPC Board       02.26.99

  San Diego, CA -- Synergy Microsystems, Inc.  announced that it has
successfully run Linux with Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) on a
quad-PowerPC 750 CPU board, running at 433 MHz. SMP allows the operating
system to dynamically balance the processing load among the four processors.
This allows the most efficient use of the four processors, resulting in
performance up to four times faster than a single-processor board. This is
the first time this level of performance has been achieved, and the first
time Linux has been offered on a VMEbus single board computer.

  "Our goal was to meet the needs of extremely demanding applications with a
four-processor PowerPC board." said Tom Powell, Synergy Microsystems CEO.
"Linux with Symmetric Multiprocessing allows users to realize the full
performance potential of having four processors. This kind of efficiency and
performance has not been available in the PowerPC market before."

  The Synergy board running SMP Linux on four processors will be on display
at the LinuxWorld Expo, March 2-4, in the LinuxPPC.

  The PowerPC 750 is currently available at speeds as high as 433 MHz. In
addition, the processor features its own private L2 cache that can be
accessed at up to 300 MHz. Four such processors in a system provide a very
powerful compute engine for high-end general-purpose needs, digital signal
processing (DSP), array processing and server applications.


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