From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 27 0:12:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB87337B405 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AD60D8128E; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:42:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:42:19 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Larry McVoy's slides on cache coherent clusters Message-ID: <20020627071219.GB73837@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3D1AB0C4.1F046F01@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D1AB0C4.1F046F01@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 26 June 2002 at 23:29:24 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > I read an interesting article that was tangentially related to > scaling OS's to a large numbre of CPU's (in this case, Linux). > > In it, there was a pointer to a talk that Larry McVoy gave at > one point regarding CPU scalability and clustering. Here's > the HTTP version of his slide show: > > http://www.bitmover.com/cc-pitch/ > > While it's technically about Linux, his criticisms, if valid > also apply equally to FreeBSD. In any case, it's a thought > provoking read. Julian Elischer and I met with Larry during the last BSDCon. He had intended to come and talk to us about it, but for some reason changed his mind. Admittedly neither Julian nor I were overly impressed with what he had to say about the concept. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message