A message from Shawn: I will be bringing a Sun T2000 machine that I have on demo to the MUUG meeting tomorrow night for those people interested in taking a look at it. This is one of the machines using the UltraSPARC T1 (aka Niagra) processor which has 8 cores on one chip with 4 threads for each core. http://www.sun.com/t2000/ Here is the output from the operating system showing that it does see 32 actual processors. http://www.wallbridge.net/t2000/prtdiag.html http://www.wallbridge.net/t2000/psrinfo.html If anyone would like to see something run on it for benchmarking purposes, please get in touch with me, I don't think we can do it at the meeting, but I might be able to either get you a shell or run it for you. I will have some pictures up soon at this URL ... http://www.wallbridge.net/t2000/images/ thanks shawn