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BigTux Shows Linux Scales To 64-Way
An anonymous reader writes "HP has been demonstrating a Superdome server running the Stream and HPL benchmarks, which shows that the standard 2.6 Linux kernel scales to 64 processors. Compiling the kernel didn't scale quite so well, but that was because it involves intermittent serial processing by a single processor. The article also notes that HP's customers are increasingly using Linux for enterprise applications, and getting more interested in using it on the desktop..."
Does it run Linux well?
I haven't had a 64-way since college.
And you?
"Look, Smithers! I'm Davy Crockett!"
That should be enough for anybody :)
Living better through chemicals
Never mind Linux for a moment, I'm just amazed that 64 Itanium 2's have actually been sold...
Time to throw out your old undies, mister Gates.
Oh, and don't be so bitter about that 640 comment. Everyone makes mistakes. I know you deny saying it but you are a liar.
They did try Windows Server 2003 on a 64-way machine, but the kernel got scared and hid under the disk controller.
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
Mandatory... Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
Two mod points if you can work a good goatse or overlord joke into this topic. Although, the thought of a 64-way goatse overlord gives me the jeebies.
Table-ized A.I.
You must have high ceilings in your office.
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
The answer, of course, is to have a hot spare E10K! Doesn't everyone have an extra one lying around?
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
I'd like to be, but the waiting list is too long.