Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:09:58 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org> Subject: Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD Message-ID: <200612051509.58788.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20061205180450.F1089@localhost> References: <200612041443.15154.josh@tcbug.org> <20061205180450.F1089@localhost>
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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
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