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From: dafuller@sequent.UUCP (David Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Upper bound on numbers of users
Message-ID: <56224@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 91 18:09:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.155013.18691@ima.isc.com> <14374@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: dafuller@sequent.UUCP (David Fuller)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <14374@encore.Encore.COM> soper@encore.UUCP (Pete Soper,Cary NC,9194813730,9193624635) writes:
>From article <1991Mar20.155013.18691@ima.isc.com>, by suitti@ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti):
>> 
>> I've seen very good consistent user-response on multi-CPU
>> machines, such as from Sequent & Multimax.  With lots of CPUs, it
>> looked like you could run huge numbers of users.  I never saw
>> that many.
>
>  Multimax is the name of an Encore system. The model 320 I'm
>typing this on has 12 32332 cpus and has 168 users logged on at
>the moment; in the afternoon the number approaches 200. There are
>other systems within Encore that support 150-200 users and this
>does not count an unknown number of "invisible" xterm sessions.

The Sequent S2000/700 I'm on right now has 500+ users.  I just completed
a benchmark where we emulated 1260 simutaneous Ingres sessions with 
excellent response times.

>
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>Pete Soper (soper@encore.com)                           +1 919 481 3730
>Encore Computer Corp, 901 Kildaire Farm Rd, bldg D, Cary, NC 27511  USA


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