Altix is NUMA and the Fire uses switched bus SMP. The only reason that Solaris doesn't scale past 106 CPUs is because Sun haven't written NUMA support into the operating system. The only two architectures Solaris supports are both SMP. With open source support this might change.
Solaris is a highly advanced operating system when deployed on its native hardware. If you want to get into the nitty gritty of why you can look it up. The thread management for one blows linux out of the water not to mention their SMP capability.
Intel and AMD chips have only just added a seperate read and execute bit. Solaris 2.6 first introduced the non_exec_stack parameter and that was defeated using return to libc. The SPARC V9 architecture has had seperate XR bits for a while and return to libc works on that architecture. I think a lot of people are falling for marketing hype.
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Altix is NUMA and the Fire uses switched bus SMP. The only reason that Solaris doesn't scale past 106 CPUs is because Sun haven't written NUMA support into the operating system. The only two architectures Solaris supports are both SMP. With open source support this might change.
Solaris is a highly advanced operating system when deployed on its native hardware. If you want to get into the nitty gritty of why you can look it up. The thread management for one blows linux out of the water not to mention their SMP capability.
Intel and AMD chips have only just added a seperate read and execute bit. Solaris 2.6 first introduced the non_exec_stack parameter and that was defeated using return to libc. The SPARC V9 architecture has had seperate XR bits for a while and return to libc works on that architecture. I think a lot of people are falling for marketing hype.