Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:32:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:31:23 -0500 Received: from mail3.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.38]:12818 "EHLO mail3.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:30:30 -0500 From: "M. Edward Borasky" To: Subject: Over 4-way systems considered harmful :-) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 07:30:45 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <9ui5fo$3oe$1@forge.intermeta.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm going to weigh in here in favor of limiting effort on SMP development by the core Linux team to systems with 4 processors and under. And not just because I'd like to see those developers freed up to work on my M-Audio Delta 66 :-). The economics of massively parallel MIMD machines just aren't there. Sure, the military guys would *love* to have a petaflop engine, but they're gonna build 'em anyway and quite probably not bother to contribute their kernel source on this mailing list. *Commercial* applications for supercomputers of this level are few and far between. I'm happy with my GFlop-level UP Athlon Thunderbird. And if Moore's Law (or the AMD equivalent :-) still holds, in 12 months I'll have something twice as fast (I've had it for six months already :-). -- Take Your Trading to the Next Level! M. Edward Borasky, Meta-Trading Coach znmeb@borasky-research.net http://www.meta-trading-coach.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meta-trading-coach - 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/