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BigTux Shows Linux Scales To 64-Way

Posted by timothy on from the can't-let-you-do-that-dave dept.

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..."

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  1. A little factoid for you by Dancin_Santa · · Score: -1, Troll

    If it can scale to 16 procs well, it will scale to 64 procs well.

    Until you start talking about double that amount of procs, which is what Windows Server does these days, or hundreds of procs, which is what Cray has been doing for years, scalability at this small "scale" (haha) is not very impressive.

    FreeBSD, the dying operating system that it is, still supports SMP on many procs much better than Linux. That's no one's fault, but jumping up and down saying how good Linux SMP is without looking at the competition makes you look a little foolish.

  2. so what? linux is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    who cares about stuff like this. linux is on its way out.

  3. That's because you're a faggot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and you jab poo.

  4. GNAA Ruckus is a failure. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ruckus is a failure.