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From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does Solaris really scale this well?
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:27:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020817182715.GC32427@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208171151190.4792-100000@mooru.gurulabs.com>

On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 11:53:16AM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> From:
>   http://www.itworld.com/Man/3828/020816mcnealy/
> 
> Scott McNealy:
> 
> "When you take a 99-way UltraSPARC III machine and add a 100th processor, 
> you get 94 percent linear scalability. You can't get 94 percent linear 
> scalability on your first Intel chip. It's very, very hard to do, and they 
> have not done it."

  Conditionally...  I would like to know the exact architecture,
and the problem set running in the system to say.

When you have noncc-NUMA, you have a Beowulf-like setup.
when you have cc-NUMA ("cc" = cache coherent), things get
truly hairy...

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-17 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-17 13:02 IDE? Adam J. Richter
2002-08-17 13:22 ` IDE? Alexander Kellett
2002-08-17 17:37   ` IDE? Andre Hedrick
2002-08-17 17:53     ` Does Solaris really scale this well? Dax Kelson
2002-08-17 18:27       ` Matti Aarnio [this message]
2002-08-17 23:03         ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-08-18  0:55           ` Larry McVoy
2002-08-18  8:35             ` David S. Miller
2002-08-18 10:28             ` venom
2002-08-18 12:33             ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-08-19 13:42               ` Does Solaris really scale this well? [OT] Dana Lacoste
2002-08-18  1:46       ` Does Solaris really scale this well? venom
2002-08-17 19:51   ` IDE? Alan Cox
2002-08-18 12:43     ` IDE? Alexander Kellett
2002-08-17 18:26 ` IDE? Andreas Dilger
2002-08-19  9:54   ` IDE? Vojtech Pavlik
     [not found] <15713.30718.950168.358907@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-08-20 10:13 ` Does Solaris really scale this well? venom
2002-08-20 12:13   ` Jakob Oestergaard

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