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A friend just sent me the following PDF about Linux Scalability to many cores and I thought it might be interesting to the list for further discussion.
It's about scalability problems of the Linux kernel and applications with 48 and more cores.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf