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From: simoni@Shasta.UUCP
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Subject: Re: shared memory multiproc. question
Message-ID: <1330@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 18:48:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 24 18:48:02 1987
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Reply-To: simoni@Shasta.UUCP (Richard Simoni)
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In article <5713@amdahl.UUCP> chuck@amdahl.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes:
>Let's assume that each workstation has a 20Mb hard disk for cacheing
>I/O to the network.  It may take a few minutes to load a working set
>of programs and data into the cache over a 40K baud ethernet link,
>but after that, things should hum pretty well.

Interesting related reference:

"File Access Performance of Diskless Workstations"
Edward D. Lazowska, John Zahorjan, David Cheriton, and Willy Zwaenepoel
Deaprtment of Computer Science, Stanford University, June 1984
Technical Report No. STAN-CS-84-1010


Rich