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Linux Gains Support for NUMA

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-iron-at-your-hip dept.

soosterh writes "CNet has an article about a NUMA patch from IBM. It says that the improvement adds some support in Linux for nonuniform memory access, or NUMA, a design for higher-end servers with many processors. Linus Torvalds, the original creator of the operating system and still its top authority, accepted the update this month into version 2.5, the current test version of the software."

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  1. NUMA? by Are+We+Afraid · · Score: 2, Funny

    This article says the code was submitted by Martin Bligh, not Dirk Pitt.

    Clearly it's a typo. I'll have to e-mail Clive about this.
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  2. One learns something new every day by Bemmu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank you for explaining who Linus Torvalds is.

  3. You know Slashdot is going "mainstream" when ... by rlowe69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linus Torvalds, the original creator of the operating system and still its top authority.

    You know Slashdot is going "mainstream" when people have to explain who Linus is.

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  4. In Other News by crawling_chaos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Richard Stallman has sent an angry e-mail demanding a name change to GNUMA.

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