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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?)."
UNIX and C were great in their days. But perhaps not in the meg-core era.
Perhaps they should worry about getting Flash to work without stuttering before they worry 'bout 48 cores.
...unless the plan is to use 48 cores to make Flash work.
Why write a new Linux when Solaris already does such a fine job scaling to large numbers of cores/threads? OpenIndiana is just getting off the ground, but it's open source, free, and works now.
If a Windows machine had 48 cores, 47 of them would be running viruses, spyware, and anti-virus/anti-spyware software and one would be running the user's applications.
All of the things Taco is not. So he is the perfect target for trolling, which Taco has just masterfully done.
Taco made major modification to the entire Karma system mostly to frustrate a couple of users. Taco loves to troll folks.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
Luckily we aren't anywhere near 48 cores and there is some time left to come up with a new Linux (Windows?).
Emphasis mine.
Oh please. Don't list an OS that has trouble running on 1 core as a possible solution.
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