Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:36:14 -0800 From: "pete wright" <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: "Josh Paetzel" <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org> Subject: Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD Message-ID: <57d710000612051336y60823c77ta4143645529c1878@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200612051509.58788.josh@tcbug.org> References: <200612041443.15154.josh@tcbug.org> <20061205180450.F1089@localhost> <200612051509.58788.josh@tcbug.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 12/5/06, Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > 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. yea, i'm pretty familiar with those systems and i would have to say that the Altix is indeed quite impressive. but, i would not equate the ability for SGI to implement a large SSI cluster like this to a "normal" user being able to implement a similar setup with a stock linus kernel or stock distro for that matter.... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?57d710000612051336y60823c77ta4143645529c1878>