It's nice being a big SUN account I get to see all the crab posted and see just how much people are guessing.
1. Solaris 8 will run with upto 1000x processors. Yes it's built in, no special kernel. No they don't make a box that big, and yes it's type of clustering. Read the Docs, 8 has been tested on boxes with over 100cpus. Where are those boxes? they are going to be announced March 21. E10K replacement will house upto 112 cpus.
2. I've talked to fujitsu, and they want our business. But even they don't sell the 128 box to be used as one 128 way system. They want you to domain the thing into smaller systems.
3. yeah DG, I've seen some good stuff about them lately. Ever run NUMA? It scales like crap compared to an SMP for normal non scientific use. I'm talking database and application server. SGI, I respect them, but if a company lived past their prime, it's SGI.
4. Fujitsu's manufacturing is in Japan. The sales rep didn't even have any loaners. The boxes are built in japan, and flown to US, and then tested in Calif. So you think you'll get a system in a timely manner?
I'm all for competition, and I think it's good, but there's a lot of stuff that Sun is coming out with that will blow your mind. Yeah they have problems. Whatelse you going to run for large environments? Linux get real.
True to an extent. But where do you think the idea of/proc came from. At least on Solaris/proc was created by an ex-Bell Labs employee who worked on Plan 9.
The idea behind Plan 9 is that "there are no special set of system calls for applications to call to deal with the state of the kernel. Instead, the applications can be written using standard file I/O system calls." (taken from a SUNWORLD article by Peter Galvin"
Parts of Beowulf also make use of the Plan 9 ideal.
So it's being used and slowly the ideals are being incorporated.
Also Plan 9 is not for embedded use. It's a distributed system. Check out the Plan 9 home page for more information. If only it didn't cost $300 bucks.
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It's nice being a big SUN account I get to see all the crab posted and see just how much people are guessing.
1. Solaris 8 will run with upto 1000x processors. Yes it's built in, no special kernel. No they don't make a box that big, and yes it's type of clustering. Read the Docs, 8 has been tested on boxes with over 100cpus. Where are those boxes? they are going to be announced March 21. E10K replacement will house upto 112 cpus.
2. I've talked to fujitsu, and they want our business. But even they don't sell the 128 box to be used as one 128 way system. They want you to domain the thing into smaller systems.
3. yeah DG, I've seen some good stuff about them lately. Ever run NUMA? It scales like crap compared to an SMP for normal non scientific use. I'm talking database and application server. SGI, I respect them, but if a company lived past their prime, it's SGI.
4. Fujitsu's manufacturing is in Japan. The sales rep didn't even have any loaners. The boxes are built in japan, and flown to US, and then tested in Calif. So you think you'll get a system in a timely manner?
I'm all for competition, and I think it's good, but there's a lot of stuff that Sun is coming out with that will blow your mind. Yeah they have problems. Whatelse you going to run for large environments? Linux get real.
True to an extent. But where do you think the idea of /proc came from. At least on Solaris /proc was created by an ex-Bell Labs employee who worked on Plan 9.
The idea behind Plan 9 is that "there are no special set of system calls for applications to call to deal with the state of the kernel. Instead, the applications can be written using standard file I/O system calls." (taken from a SUNWORLD article by Peter Galvin"
Parts of Beowulf also make use of the Plan 9 ideal.
So it's being used and slowly the ideals are being incorporated.
Also Plan 9 is not for embedded use. It's a distributed system. Check out the Plan 9 home page for more information. If only it didn't cost $300 bucks.