Re: [ProgSoc] Transaction Server

[daedalus <daedalus@nospam.its.maynick.com.au>]

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Anton Blanchard wrote:

>> Not on this size of machine. An E10k can have up to (umm.. thinks back to
>> the E10k course) 64 UltraSPARC processors. Linux, for example, supports at
>> best 8 processors via SMP, and probably really only 4 well. 64 requires
>> a significantly different kernel than 2-4 processors. 
>
>Linux should be able to boot 64 CPUs fine although the performance will
>in no way match Solaris :) 

Yes, that's what I was getting at. I really should try booting linux onto
the spare 12 CPU domain we've got lying around as an exercise... :)

Maybe after I've finished this braindead "write bits of a compiler"
assignment. *sigh* C+-, very droll I'm sure.

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