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Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled,
From: Kyle McDonald <kmcdonald () egenera ! com>
Date: 2010-09-09 16:36:33
Message-ID: 4C890D11.5010200 () Egenera ! COM
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On 9/9/2010 11:42 AM, Octave Orgeron wrote:
> There was a solution for the Sun Fire 6800-25k servers that allowed
> you to do this. The name escapes me, but I know Sun had a course
> for it and sold it to several universities and of course the US
> government. Basically it consisted of some HBA's and a custom
> switch.
The project name was 'WildCat' - The F6800/6900 (I guess the model
numbers were still wrong in my second post - where is my memory
going?) were project 'serengeti' and the CPU's were members of the
cat family like 'jaguar'.
The product was able to do RSM (remote shared memory) between
multiple kernels, and SSM (scalable shared memory) between boxes for 1
kernel. As far as I know, while the HW shipped was capable of both,
the only SW/drivers that ever shipped were for RSM mode only.
> Back in the E10k and Exx00 days, this was also doable through
> extending the UPA bus.
This sounds like the earlier project 'WildFire' (for the Sunfire
project machines). As I recall it relaced the IO 'blade', and was a
custom bus. It may have beta'd to a few places but It never shipped.
- -Kyle
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On 9/9/2010 11:42 AM, Octave Orgeron wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> There was a solution for the
Sun Fire 6800-25k servers that allowed<br>
> you to do this. The name escapes me, but I know Sun had a
course<br>
> for it and sold it to several universities and of course
the US<br>
> government. Basically it consisted of some HBA's and a
custom<br>
> switch.</span><br>
<br>
The project name was 'WildCat' - The F6800/6900 (I guess the model<br>
numbers were still wrong in my second post - where is my memory<br>
going?) were project 'serengeti' and the CPU's were members of
the<br>
cat family like 'jaguar'.<br>
<br>
The product was able to do RSM (remote shared memory) between<br>
multiple kernels, and SSM (scalable shared memory) between boxes
for 1<br>
kernel. As far as I know, while the HW shipped was capable of
both,<br>
the only SW/drivers that ever shipped were for RSM mode only.<br>
<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Back in the E10k and Exx00
days, this was also doable through<br>
> extending the UPA bus.</span><br>
<br>
This sounds like the earlier project 'WildFire' (for the Sunfire<br>
project machines). As I recall it relaced the IO 'blade', and was
a<br>
custom bus. It may have beta'd to a few places but It never
shipped.<br>
<br>
- -Kyle<br>
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