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Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores
An anonymous reader writes "There is interesting new research coming out of MIT which suggests current operating systems are struggling with the addition of more cores to the CPU. It appears that the problem, which affects the available memory in a chip when multiple cores are working on the same chunks of data, is getting worse and may be hitting a peak somewhere in the neighborhood of 48 cores, when entirely new operating systems will be needed, the report says. Luckily, we aren't anywhere near 48 cores and there is some time left to come up with a new Linux (Windows?)."
They have an one-off error in their math, it's actually 9 times a 6 core CPU. So, at 42 cores a rewrite is needed.
640 cores ought to be enough for anybody . . .
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
What does "(Windows?)" even mean?
I read that as saying "Windows is the new Linux!". Clearly the submitter is trying to incite violence in the Slashdot community.
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
I'm still waiting for Windows to work well on ONE.
... from the original MIT article it sounds like there is lock contention on shared memory reference counts. ... but I'm making that up.
http://xkcd.com/619/
Don't bother checking the box, RMS, we know who it is.
Nobody's every going to need more than 640 cores
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Fuck, dude, we hurd you the first time. and "GNU Plus Linux" is terrible marketing.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
it's to give the reader enough information to decide whether reading the full article is worth it.
We are supposed to read the articles? Why didn't anyone tell me about this before?!!
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Wait, Macs don't suck?
I drank what? -- Socrates
...there is some time left to come up with a new Linux (Windows?).
Windows, the new Linux.
You read it here first...
XKCD:Xeric Knowledge Comically Dispen
(But a non-proprietary NVIDIA driver will still not play your Flash movies smoothly. :P)
Lets drive the greenhorn OUT! No filthy high UID's with their spelling and gramar and solid well researched non-sensationlist writing. I want my editors to rape the language (bonus points if it is several languages at once) and sent my heart racing by raising my bile and fear of the unknown and known.
Headlines sell adverts. Truth, accuracy, honesty do not. Accept it, you are reading slashdot, it works.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Wow, you've convinced me. I'm canceling all my plans to migrate to OS/2. Thanks.
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most. - Clement Mok
However, posting your own post in your own post is a bit excessive, and there could have been better ways to do this than just repost your entire freakin story as the first comment.
Yo dawg, I heard you liked my post so I put a post inside my post so you could enjoy it while you're enjoying my post!
My work here is dung.
SGI runs Single System Image Linux systems with over 1000 cores, that's not the problem.
640 cores should be enough for anyone.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
If you have 4,096 CPUs I don't think that "smooth flash playback" is a problem.
4,095 CPUs however...
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Nah, jokes like "64xx should be enough for anybody" actually suck the humor out of the reader due to old age. The GP is probably an inmate in the Home for the Terminally Bland.
Which is exactly why he _cant_ be a /. editor.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.