Re: Scaling noise

Bernd Eckenfels
2003-09-03T06:12:29Z

In article <20030903050859.GD10257@work.bitmover.com> you wrote:
> It's called asymptotic behavior. After a while you can look at the graph
> and see that more CPUs on the same memory doesn't make sense. It hasn't
> made sense for a decade, what makes anyone think that is changing?

Thats why NUMA gets so popular.

Larry, dont forget, that Linux is growing in the University Labs, where
those big NUMA and Multi-Node Clusters are most popular for Number
Crunching.

Greetings
Bernd
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