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In article <1992Sep11.121830.17069@hubcap.clemson.edu>,
zilla@nj.nec.com (John Lewis) writes:
|> Someone told me that the SGI multiprocessor machines cannot run
|> different unix processes on different processors;

I think someone was pulling your leg.  Of course our multiprocessors
an do this, it is the easiest style to implement.
|> they can only
|> run a single (but possibly parallelized) process at a given time.
|> The reason was said to be that the machines do not implement
|> any mechanism for simultaneous writes.

I assume he meant writes to memory.  Most memory is single ported,
for cost reasons, but there is dedicated memory per processor at
higher levels in the memory hierarchy.

Jim Bennett		(bennett@sgi.com)