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2.5.65 On 32-way NUMA-Q with Preempt Enabled
_iris writes "I think the subject speaks for itself. Here is the link to the story on KernelTrap." In case you have a spare 32-processor machine munching grass in the back 40.
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UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Wow. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those !
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
Good to see the Linux kernel making such leaps and bounds.
Keep at it guys!
I would like a ... oh wait it is :)
Rus
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Nuns Under Management of Al-Qaeda
Sheesh, I'm sitting here with a 64 Way and two 32-way boxes just waiting for decent to run on them.
Does this mean that FINALLY I can shift Quake Server off the clustered S80s in the basement ?
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
I'd rather have a girlfriend who is also into muching carpet.
BOO! TERRO
ive been waiting for the lastest version of that plasma gun for ages. about bloody time
this sig steers like a cow. and i can prove it
Now this is cool. I know that SGI can scale the Altix to 64 CPU's running 2.4 with their own additions in an SSI. However not sure about. 2.5. Its nice to see it in the main kernel anyway and the only way is up
Rus
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Abandon ship abandom ship[, Captain Numaqua Come in Captain Numaqua.
/. listen to underground or anything halfway decent. Nobody get my jokes. ::shuffles off into corner with ipod::
Not enough people on
i thought i my daily 3-ways were good but it seems ive been missing out :(
Here is the complete article, the fscking lameness filter made it quite a struggle to get it posted here. Anyway:
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Zwane Mwaikambo announced today on the lkml that he's successfully boot the 2.5.65 development kernel on a 32-way NUMA-Q server with -preempt enabled. Speaking to Robert Love [interview], the kernel preemption maintainer, he began his announcement saying, "Robert, I suppose you can add another notch on your erm.. bedpost(?) and congratulations to all the kernel developers!" NUMA awareness in the scheduler was added into the development kernel in late January [story].
William Lee Irwin III [interview] explained the significance of this achievement:
"This has had a hard time historically. I'm really glad NUMA-Q's are now immune (in the sense of correctness) to this config; previously it was believed that preemption points in printk(linux_banner) would take out the machine early in boot if preemption was enabled. Congratulations rml! If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap."
Read on for the full thread.
From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Subject: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 06:48:33 -0400 (EDT)
Robert i suppose you can add another notch on your erm.. bedpost(?) and congratulations to all the kernel developers! It survived some local networking stress tests, but there is more fun stuff like tty layer to completely obliterate
(Hardware courtesy of OSDL)
Running configuration
32 Processors, PIII 500
32G RAM
Patches required:
2.5.65 (only because isp1020 decided to get huffy)
Purge assign_irq_vector panic - Zwane Mwaikambo
[boot messages]
From: Robert Love
Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ
Date: 06 Apr 2003 14:28:42 -0400
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 06:48, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Robert i suppose you can add another notch on our erm.. bedpost(?)
> and congratulations to all the kernel developers! It survived some
> local networking stress tests, but there is more fun stuff like tty
> layer to completely obliterate
Excellent, Zwane.
Congratulations! Good work.
Robert Love
From: William Lee Irwin III
Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 04:23:40 -0700
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 06:48:33AM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Robert i suppose you can add another notch on our erm.. bedpost(?)
> and congratulations to all the kernel developers! It survived some
> local networking stress tests, but there is more fun stuff like tty
> layer to completely obliterate
Wow!
This has had a hard time historically. I'm really glad NUMA-Q's are now immune (in the sense of correctness) to this config; previously it was
believed that preemption points in printk(linux_banner) would take out the machine early in boot if preemption was enabled.
Congratulations rml!
If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap.
All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right.
-- wli
From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 07:25:09 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> This has had a hard time historically. I'm really glad NUMA-Q's are now
> immune (in the sense of correctness) to this config; previously it was
> believed that preemption points in printk(linux_banner) would take out
> the machine early in boot if preemption was enabled.
Which kernel version was that from
Let's post something totally obscure.
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If the Tao is great, then the box is stable. If the box is stable, then the server is secure. If the server is secure, then the data is safe. If the data is safe, then the users are happy.
In the beginning there was chaos in Unix.
Tanenbaum gave birth to MINIX. MINIX did not have the Tao.
MINIX gave birth to Linux 0.1 and it had promise.
Linux gave birth to v1.3 and it was good.
v1.3 gave birth to v2.0 and it was better.
Linux has evolved greatly from its distant cousins of the old. Linux is embodied by the Tao.
The wise user is told about the Tao and contributes to it. The average user is told about the Tao and compiles it. The foolish user is told about the Tao and laughs and asks who needs it.
If it were not for laughter, there would be no Tao.
Wisdom leads to good code, but experience leads to good use of that code.
The master Cox once dreamed that he was a Kernel. When he awoke he exclaimed: "I don't know whether I am Cox dreaming that I am a Kernel, or a Kernel dreaming that I am Cox!"
The master Linus then said: "The Tao envelopes you. You shall create great code for Linux."
"On the contrary," said Cox, "The Tao has already created the code, I will only have to find it and write it down."
A master was explaining the nature of the Tao to one of his students:
"Is the Tao in the VM subsystem?" he asked. "Yes," replied the master.
"Is the Tao in the scheduler?" he queried again. "The Tao is in the scheduler."
"Is the Tao even in the modules?". "It is even in the modules," said the master.
"Is the Tao in the Low-Latency Patch?"
The master frowned and was silent for much time.
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The Tao is the yin and the yang. It is the good and the evil, it is everything and yet it is nothing, it is the beginning and the end.
The Tao was there at the kernel compile, and it will be there when the kernel panics.
A novice user once asked a master: "Why compile in C when C++ is more popular?"
"Why a monolythic kernel when Mach is more popular?"
"And why use ReiserFS when ext2 is more popular?"
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The user was enlightened.
A frustrated user once asked a master: "My kernel has panicked, should I post to lkml?"
"No," replied the master, "You will only bother the Tao."
"Should I rm -rf?"
"No, you will have wasted the Tao's time."
"Well should I search the web?"
"You will search for all eternity," said the master.
"Perhaps I should try FreeBSD?"
"Then you will have disgraced the Tao."
"I suppose I could try gdb," said the user.
The master smiled and replied: "Then you will have made the Tao stronger."
A stubborn user once told a master: "I run version 2.2. I always have, and I always will."
The master replied: "You are foolish and do not understand the Tao. The Tao is dynamic and ever changing. Linux strives for the perfection that is the Tao. It flows from version to version with peace."
"So my Linux does not have the Tao, so what?" said the foolish user. "Oh your Linux is of the Tao," said the master. "However, the Tao of Linux follows the Tao of the C library. One day the C library will change, and your Linux will be left behind." The user was silent.
An angry user once yelled at a master:
"My Linux has panicked! What lousy software it is, I hate it so!"
"You are insulting the Tao," said the master. "The Tao is everywhere bringing order to hundreds of networks, aiding thousands of users, and fighting that of which we call the 'lame.' Do not disrespect the Tao; howe
What the hell are you guys talking about?
Yes, it is now possible to launch 32 preemptive NUMA-Q missiles strikes simultaneously using the Linux kernel. Excelent!!!
Translation: I'm going to bed, and the editors are lazy.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
I think the subject speaks for itself
If only it spoke in a language I can understand
NUMA, ok, that i understand.
(Instead of one big shared memory pool it uses processors that each have their own pool, and can access other memory with a timing penalty)
but what does "-preempt " have to do with this. what does this option do? Int unix always preemtive?
Well this is great to hear in my opinon but I'm just wondering if this will add to the Law Suit that SCO has on the plate for Linux. It's pretty sad when someone put's a lot of time and work into a project and then someone, like myself, questions if it will hurt more then help Linux. I love hearing about such innovation though and I'd like to say great job by all...
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The subject of this comment explains the meaning of life. If (like me) you don't speak the language it's written in, you're too stupid to know the meaning of life.
IBM bought Sequent and are planning new revisions of this with a new name.
Mike Bouma
We all know that SCO invented NUMA and SMP. Jeesh.
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Would you have all been as interested in this story if you'd known:
*sigh*
Here is a Mirror List
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The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world. It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.) But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones. Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference. "You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion. Two weeks later, the first detention center for terrorists was built in Oranianberg to hold the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the leader's flag was everywhere, even printed large in newspapers suitable for window display. Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation's now-popular leader had pushed through legislation - in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it - that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people's homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism. To get his patriotic "Decree on the Protection of People and State" passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained.
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Legislators would later say they hadn't had time to read the bill before voting on it. Immediately after passage of the anti-terrorism act, his federal police agencies stepped up their program of arresting suspicious persons and holding them without access to lawyers or courts. In the first year only a few hundred were interred, and those who objected were largely ignored by the mainstream press, which was afraid to offend and thus lose access to a leader with such high popularity ratings. Citizens who protested the leader in public - and there were many - quickly found themselves confronting the newly empowered police's batons, gas, and jail cells, or fenced off in protest zones safely out of earshot of the leader's public speeches. (In the meantime, he was taking almost daily lessons in public speaking, learning to control his tonality, gestures, and facial expressions. He became a very competent orator.) Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. He wanted to stir a "racial pride" among his countrymen, so, instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as "The Homeland," a phrase publicly promoted in the introduction to a 1934 speech recorded in Leni Riefenstahl's famous propaganda movie "Triumph Of The Will." As hoped, people's hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was "the" homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands. We are the "true people," he suggested, the only ones worthy of our nation's concern; if bombs fall on others, or human rights are violated in other nations and it makes our lives better, it's of little concern to us. Playing on this new nationalism, and exploiting a disagreement with the French over his increasing militarism, he argued that any international body that didn't act first and foremost in the best interest of his own nation was neither relevant nor useful. He thus withdrew his country from the League Of Nations in October, 1933, and then negotiated a separate naval armaments agreement with Anthony Eden of The United Kingdom to create a worldwide military ruling elite. His propaganda minister orchestrated a campaign to ensure the people that he was a deeply religious man and that his motivations were rooted in Christianity. He even proclaimed the need for a revival of the Christian faith across his nation, what he called a "New Christianity." Every man in his rapidly growing army wore a belt buckle that declared "Gott Mit Uns" - God Is With Us - and most of them fervently believed it was true. Within a year of the terrorist attack, the nation's leader determined that the various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the nation, particularly those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist and communist sympathizers, and various troublesome "intellectuals" and "liberals." He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the homeland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police, border, and investigative agencies under a single leader. He appointed one of his most trusted associates to be leader of this new agency, the Central Security Office for the homeland, and gave it a role in the government equal to the other major departments. His assistant who dealt with the press noted that, since the terrorist attack, "Radio and press are at out disposal." Those voices questioning the legitimacy of their nation's leader, or raising questions about his checkered past, had by now faded from the public's recollection as his central security office began advertising a program encouraging people to phone in tips about suspicious neighbors.
I just realized that because of my actions, the company I work for has just lost £120000...
This program was so successful that the names of some of the people "denounced" were soon being broadcast on radio stations. Those denounced often included opposition politicians and celebrities who dared speak out - a favorite target of his regime and the media he now controlled through intimidation and ownership by corporate allies. To consolidate his power, he concluded that government alone wasn't enough. He reached out to industry and forged an alliance, bringing former executives of the nation's largest corporations into high government positions. A flood of government money poured into corporate coffers to fight the war against the Middle Eastern ancestry terrorists lurking within the homeland, and to prepare for wars overseas. He encouraged large corporations friendly to him to acquire media outlets and other industrial concerns across the nation, particularly those previously owned by suspicious people of Middle Eastern ancestry. He built powerful alliances with industry; one corporate ally got the lucrative contract worth millions to build the first large-scale detention center for enemies of the state. Soon more would follow. Industry flourished. But after an interval of peace following the terrorist attack, voices of dissent again arose within and without the government. Students had started an active program opposing him (later known as the White Rose Society), and leaders of nearby nations were speaking out against his bellicose rhetoric. He needed a diversion, something to direct people away from the corporate cronyism being exposed in his own government, questions of his possibly illegitimate rise to power, and the oft-voiced concerns of civil libertarians about the people being held in detention without due process or access to attorneys or family. With his number two man - a master at manipulating the media - he began a campaign to convince the people of the nation that a small, limited war was necessary. Another nation was harboring many of the suspicious Middle Eastern people, and even though its connection with the terrorist who had set afire the nation's most important building was tenuous at best, it held resources their nation badly needed if they were to have room to live and maintain their prosperity. He called a press conference and publicly delivered an ultimatum to the leader of the other nation, provoking an international uproar. He claimed the right to strike preemptively in self-defense, and nations across Europe - at first - denounced him for it, pointing out that it was a doctrine only claimed in the past by nations seeking worldwide empire, like Caesar's Rome or Alexander's Greece. It took a few months, and intense international debate and lobbying with European nations, but, after he personally met with the leader of the United Kingdom, finally a deal was struck. After the military action began, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the nervous British people that giving in to this leader's new first-strike doctrine would bring "peace for our time." Thus Hitler annexed Austria in a lightning move, riding a wave of popular support as leaders so often do in times of war. The Austrian government was unseated and replaced by a new leadership friendly to Germany, and German corporations began to take over Austrian resources. In a speech responding to critics of the invasion, Hitler said, "Certain foreign newspapers have said that we fell on Austria with brutal methods. I can only say; even in death they cannot stop lying. I have in the course of my political struggle won much love from my people, but when I crossed the former frontier [into Austria] there met me such a stream of love as I have never experienced. Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators." To deal with those who dissented from his policies, at the advice of his politically savvy advisors, he and his handmaidens in the press began a campaign to equate him and his policies with patriotism and the nation itself.
Comments like this make ignorant twats like myself /. the sites, as I'm one of those who don't understand all the cryptic subjects. Please drop short descriptions, even if things seem obvious to you.
Thanks. And oh yes, it's been slashdotted already.
-a
National unity was essential, they said, to ensure that the terrorists or their sponsors didn't think they'd succeeded in splitting the nation or weakening its will. In times of war, they said, there could be only "one people, one nation, and one commander-in-chief" ("Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer"), and so his advocates in the media began a nationwide campaign charging that critics of his policies were attacking the nation itself. Those questioning him were labeled "anti-German" or "not good Germans," and it was suggested they were aiding the enemies of the state by failing in the patriotic necessity of supporting the nation's valiant men in uniform. It was one of his most effective ways to stifle dissent and pit wage-earning people (from whom most of the army came) against the "intellectuals and liberals" who were critical of his policies. Nonetheless, once the "small war" annexation of Austria was successfully and quickly completed, and peace returned, voices of opposition were again raised in the Homeland. The almost-daily release of news bulletins about the dangers of terrorist communist cells wasn't enough to rouse the populace and totally suppress dissent. A full-out war was necessary to divert public attention from the growing rumbles within the country about disappearing dissidents; violence against liberals, Jews, and union leaders; and the epidemic of crony capitalism that was producing empires of wealth in the corporate sector but threatening the middle class's way of life. A year later, to the week, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia; the nation was now fully at war, and all internal dissent was suppressed in the name of national security. It was the end of Germany's first experiment with democracy. As we conclude this review of history, there are a few milestones worth remembering. February 27, 2003, was the 70th anniversary of Dutch terrorist Marinus van der Lubbe's successful firebombing of the German Parliament (Reichstag) building, the terrorist act that catapulted Hitler to legitimacy and reshaped the German constitution. By the time of his successful and brief action to seize Austria, in which almost no German blood was shed, Hitler was the most beloved and popular leader in the history of his nation. Hailed around the world, he was later Time magazine's "Man Of The Year." Most Americans remember his office for the security of the homeland, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and its SchutzStaffel, simply by its most famous agency's initials: the SS. We also remember that the Germans developed a new form of highly violent warfare they named "lightning war" or blitzkrieg, which, while generating devastating civilian losses, also produced a highly desirable "shock and awe" among the nation's leadership according to the authors of the 1996 book "Shock And Awe" published by the National Defense University Press. Reflecting on that time, The American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983) left us this definition of the form of government the German democracy had become through Hitler's close alliance with the largest German corporations and his policy of using war as a tool to keep power: "fas-cism (fbsh'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." Today, as we face financial and political crises, it's useful to remember that the ravages of the Great Depression hit Germany and the United States alike. Through the 1930s, however, Hitler and Roosevelt chose very different courses to bring their nations back to power and prosperity. Germany's response was to use government to empower corporations and reward the society's richest individuals, privatize much of the commons, stifle dissent, strip people of constitutional rights, and create an illusion of prosperity through continual and ever-expanding war.
America passed minimum wage laws to raise the middle class, enforced anti-trust laws to diminish the power of corporations, increased taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals, created Social Security, and became the employer of last resort through programs to build national infrastructure, promote the arts, and replant forests. To the extent that our Constitution is still intact, the choice is again ours.
Thom Hartmann lived and worked in Germany during the 1980s, and is the author of over a dozen books, including "Unequal Protection" and "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight." This article is copyright by Thom Hartmann, but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so long as this credit is attached.
when?
I think the subject speaks for itself.
Apparently, it doesn't.
Sometimes I worry that I'll develop Alzheimer's disease, but no one will notice.
Is that occasionally there are headlines like this that I can read, re-read, and still have no clue what the article's actually about. I don't know what ANY of that stuff means.
*grin*
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Would be nice if /. mirrored the stories it links to. This way only news >1 day old is accessible :(
I'm sorry, but since when has
"Yep, great. Carry on"
been insightful?
IBM has been making rumblings for some time about a new 32Bit 32-Way system. The Linux kernal will be ready for it.
We're just about to mothball a 32 processor SP, maybe I'll drag it home. It could do double duty as a furnace.
IBM's x440 shipping 16-way NUMA/SMP system will benefit from this significantly...this machine will also soon be going to 32-way capability...so for those of you thinking there's no hardware out there today to take advantage of this...guess again.
IBM x440
..the fact that IBM's eServer xSeries 440 is a NUMA-Q box that can scale to 16 Processors now? It is a NUMA-Q box...
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
It refers to preemptable work on BSD, but here is a good general description of kernel preemption.
And its a beautiful thing.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Its good they finally got it to boot...but still...i think there are far to many bugs in printk. I've had the 2.5's barf on me quite a bit because of this, and it only seems to get worse as it spans out over more proccessors. I think we need to proritize here. The kernel devlopers should be focusing more on stablilzing the 2.5.x kernels rather than adding loads and loads of new features. The recent benchmarks show the 2.5.x kernels are lagging way behind 2.4 and even 2.3 kernels. I think we need to stop loaded all the pretty new features for a minute and focus on getting what we have right now to work. I still have problems with ntfs writing out malformed blocks :|
:)
There is alot of cool stuff in the new 2.5.x kernels i will admit, and i look forward to using it, but as it stands i cant put a 2.5 kernel anyweres but on my home machine because once it hits a production envoirnment it craps itself. I know its just a devlopment release, but lets get it speed up a little before we start working on features for distrubted systems
the kernel is getting kind of bougoise these days. With one name and all. They don't even bother to say what 2.5.65 refers too!
I guess Linux is going mainstream. Maybe I'll stop calling it RedHat or Mandrake, and just call it "2.5..."
...but I fail to realize the signifikance of this news item. Anyone of the in-the-know crowd: care to enlighten me? 32 bla NUMA-Q what?
-- Contradictions only exist in thought - not in reality.
2.5.65? what the hell is that?
32-way NUMA-Q? who?
Preempt Enabled? sure!
Headlines are supposed to actually make sense, fail that, the synopsis should take its place.
I found Unisys has some 32-way IA-32 some machines but they only support Windows (and for this kind of money the vendor is going to damn well support my OS).
Who else makes a 32-way system? Does anybody have recommendations? What do these things cost? With a good set of scripts and/or something like MPI a rack of 16 2-way servers is nearly trival to manage and utilize, so the integrated systems neeed to be around $25K to be interesting.
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Don't click on the link in the parent post if you're at work. In fact, it's best not to click on it at all, unless you have a fetish for defecation.
There's a moderation rating for Off-Topic, but unfortunately, not for Pornography. At least the FARKers bother to label things Not Safe For Work.
Attack its weak point for massive damage!