From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262312AbTI1DQ4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:16:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262316AbTI1DQ4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:16:56 -0400 Received: from miranda.zianet.com ([216.234.192.169]:47631 "HELO miranda.zianet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262312AbTI1DQz (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:16:55 -0400 From: Steven Cole To: Paul Jakma , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: Scaling noise Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:13:17 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Timothy Miller , "Martin J. Bligh" , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030910151238.GC32321@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309272113.18030.elenstev@mesatop.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:51 pm, Paul Jakma wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Dave and friends can protest as much as they want that the kernel works > > and it scales (it does work, it doesn't scale by comparison to something > > like IRIX) > > Aside: Might want to tell SGI as their new ccNUMA Altrix line (Origin > 3k with Itanic instead of MIPS i think) run Linux! Since Larry is off doing other things for the next week and a half, I'll attemt to to answer that for him. Larry was possibly referring to IRIX scaling to 1024 CPUs, e.g. the "Chapman" machine, mentioned here: http://www.sgi.com/company_info/awards/03_computerworld.html It appears that SGI is working to scale the Altix to 128 CPUs on Linux. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106323064611280&w=2 Steven