From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 21:10:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2098E16A40F for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [63.240.77.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E564243CC2 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:09:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-173-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.173.219]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <200612052110220120015tp0e>; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:10:22 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:09:58 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200612041443.15154.josh@tcbug.org> <20061205180450.F1089@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20061205180450.F1089@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612051509.58788.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Nick Hibma Subject: Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:10:33 -0000 On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:19, Nick Hibma wrote: > > 1) SMP scalability. 4-way boxes are relatively common, and > > hardware with higher CPU counts is only going to get more and > > more common. I'm no industry expert, but 5 years from now will my > > clients be considering buying 32 and 64 way boxes? Possibly. > > Will FreeBSD be in a positiion to compete favorably vs. the > > alternatives on such hardware? > > People have been working on this for years. It's a difficult thing > to get right. Sun has been spending a *LOT* of time doing this for > Solaris, and I bet that even Linux isn't there yet. > Linux actually scales very well in this area. My friends in the supercomputer business tell me that people are successfully using linux on 1024-way SSI boxes. It doesn't scale quite as well as IRIX, but a lot of people opt for linux anyways. For instance, NASA Columbia, which is a cluster of 20 512-way SSI Altix's is successfully running linux, and comes in #8 on top500.org's supercomputer list. http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2006/june/altix4700.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/stream_mail/2006/0012.html -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel