| To: | wje@fir.engr.sgi.com (William J. Earl) |
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| Subject: | Re: What about... |
| From: | alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:07:04 +0100 (BST) |
| Cc: | adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca, anubis@BanjaLuka.NET, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <199807171411.HAA11412@fir.engr.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Jul 17, 98 07:11:42 am |
| Sender: | owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
> that giant a project, but it would not be particularly useful. If there > were a good linux on some other very large ccNUMA machine, then an Origin > port would be much simpler. By "good", I mean a linux which scale well > for large (greater than 32) processor and I/O count (many I/O buses > and thousands of disk). It expect such a linux will happen eventually, > but not yet. The obvious starting point would probably be the older (386/486) sequent boxes. I almost got somewhere with this but one bit of sequent wasnt willing to be helpful and counted its bus arbitrators as staying NDA. That was 2 years ago so I ought to chase them again I guess |
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