>Yet in research labs (a lot of clustered solutions) >and automotive fields, the Linux kernel has a dominant >role (not necessarily the RH distro either).
The processor count in clustered systems is irrelevant; clustering is not affected by the single CPU limit. >I think the arguement is still *when** Sun will have >support up to 128 processors for the IA64/AMD64 >platforms (if not also Power/PowerPC) - even if it is >in ALPHA/BETA form for OEM/IHVs. Unlikely for the IA64 platform; soon for the AMD64 platform; for us, however, there is generally one precondition: we need to have the platform with that many CPUs to test. >This also isn't just looking at Linux, but AIX and >HP-UX. Hardware specs like: > >Processors: 128 >Memory: 1 TB RAM >Storage: 512TB storage Well, were is that AMD64 hardware which such SPECs? E25K: 72CPUs * 2 cores. So the basic OS supports that many CPUs and more; we can't very well support systems which do not exist. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
