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Volume 45, Number 2, 2001
Technology for xSeries Servers
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Experience with building a commodity Intel-based ccNUMA system - References
by B. C. Brock, G. D. Carpenter, E. Chiprout, M. E. Dean, P. L. De Backer, E. N. Elnozahy, H. Franke, M. E. Giampapa, D. Glasco, J. L. Peterson, R. Rajamony, R. Ravindran, F. L. Rawson, R. L. Rockhold, and J. Rubio

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