From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>,
adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca, anubis@BanjaLuka.NET,
linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: What about...
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 19:43:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980717194320.27628@uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0yxC6E-000aOoC@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 04:07:04PM +0100
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 04:07:04PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
Do you have hardware? I know an installation which might want to get rid
of their 486 based 32 processor Sequent system if they didn't already.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-17 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <35ADF6D0.46FCB21E@BanjaLuka.NET>
1998-07-17 5:24 ` What about Alex deVries
1998-07-17 5:30 ` Greg Chesson
1998-07-17 14:11 ` William J. Earl
1998-07-17 15:07 ` Alan Cox
1998-07-17 15:07 ` Alan Cox
1998-07-17 17:43 ` ralf [this message]
1998-07-17 17:53 ` Alan Cox
1998-07-17 22:15 ` Jeffrey Watts
1998-07-17 17:29 ` ralf
1998-07-17 18:01 ` Greg Chesson
1998-07-17 18:19 ` William J. Earl
1998-07-18 1:57 ` ralf
1998-07-18 2:00 ` Greg Chesson
[not found] ` <wje@fir>
1998-07-17 17:47 ` Greg Chesson
1998-07-17 18:14 ` Alan Cox
1998-07-17 18:14 ` Alan Cox
1998-07-17 18:21 ` William J. Earl
1998-07-17 18:21 ` William J. Earl
1998-07-18 1:37 ` ralf
1998-07-18 1:58 ` Greg Chesson
1998-07-18 2:44 ` ralf
1998-07-18 10:47 ` ralf
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