Merlin,
> just FYI: tyan makes a 8 socket motherboard (up to 16 cores!):
> http://www.swt.com/vx50.html
>
> It can be loaded with up to 128 gb memory if all the sockets
> are filled :).
Cool!
Just remember that you can't get more than 1 CPU working on a query at a
time without a parallel database.
- Luke
