Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261950AbTI2Ar6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:47:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262743AbTI2Ar6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:47:58 -0400 Received: from hibernia.jakma.org ([213.79.33.168]:42118 "EHLO hibernia.jakma.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261950AbTI2Ar5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:47:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 01:47:23 +0100 (IST) From: Paul Jakma X-X-Sender: paul@fogarty.jakma.org To: Steven Cole cc: Larry McVoy , Timothy Miller , "Martin J. Bligh" , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Scaling noise In-Reply-To: <200309272113.18030.elenstev@mesatop.com> Message-ID: References: <20030910151238.GC32321@work.bitmover.com> <200309272113.18030.elenstev@mesatop.com> X-NSA: iraq saddam hammas hisballah rabin ayatollah korea vietnam revolt mustard gas MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Steven Cole wrote: > Since Larry is off doing other things for the next week and a half, > I'll attemt to to answer that for him. Larry was possibly > referring to IRIX scaling to 1024 CPUs, e.g. the "Chapman" machine, > mentioned here: > http://www.sgi.com/company_info/awards/03_computerworld.html An Origin 3k, Altix is essentially the Origin 3k architecture but engineered around Itanic CPU boards. :) > It appears that SGI is working to scale the Altix to 128 CPUs on Linux. > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106323064611280&w=2 Working to? Nah, they did that a long time ago: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2001-03/msg00004.html They've had another 2.5 years since to further work on Linux scaleability. "SGI Altix 3000 superclusters scale up to hundreds of processors." So, either they've already run Linux on Altix or Origin internally with hundreds of CPUs or they're fairly confident there arent any major problems they couldnt sort out in the time it would take to build, test and deliver a hundred+ node Altix. > Steven > - regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A warning: do not ever send email to spam@dishone.st Fortune: I owe the public nothing. -- J.P. Morgan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/