>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 ----------------------- Casper, You hit the nail on the head in that if people don't have ACCESS to these systems - but not if the systems do not exist though. Don't forget the HP Superdome and IBM p5 595, a several "Skunk Works" projects in which investors have gone well up to 128 physical cpu configurations (and more). Yet, I know the people on this email are champions in their field and have experience from Wasabi Systems and the early NetBSD/FreeBSD integrations of SMP. But, that was about 4-5 years ago. If Sun gave Solaris using AMD64/IA64 hardware with up to 32 cpus (32/64 cpus with dual core), that would be great. Maybe, even make a user tunable selection where a user can specify the number of physical CPUs >8 cpus might be an option. You already know that things don't have to exist in native hardware to exist in software / custom hardware.... ~ Ken __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
