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Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors

• mattmaroon 18y ago
  Damn, I was really hoping for a 257 core machine.
• trapper 18y ago
  Minimum requirements eh?
• pdubroy 18y ago
  256 cores ought to be enough for anybody.
• wmf 18y ago
  Jokes aside, a 64-core Larrabee (should it exist) would have 256 threads. A two-socket Larrabee system would have 512.
• jacobscott 18y ago
  does anyone have experience with windows based HPC? Seems like this is an area where *nix has long dominated.
• coolestuk 18y ago
  Back in 1996, OS/2 (the unloved stepchild of Microsoft and IBM) could scale to 64 processors. I believe it was actually higher than that, but IBM would only certify it as 64 CPUs because that was what they'd done the testing on. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245393.pdf http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245393.pdf