Messages in this thread | | | From | Laurence Sanford <> | Subject | RE: 32-cpu box | Date | Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:05:19 -0600 |
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On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > this system is is able to build "partitions" of ressources > (processors, memory, I/O-channels). > > using these you are able to boot multiple operating systems at the > same time with > dynamically ressource-management (during runtime, you can move a > processor > from one to another partition, if both the operating system support > the dynamic > ressource allocation). so even if you can support only 4 or 8 > processors it's still > very usefull (imagine 4 LINUXes as a high availability solution in > one box,
This reminds of reading about booting Linux out of VM's on an S/390. Since IBM is working to improve the Linux support there, that could be the best form of high availability for linux, until someone comes up with one of these 32-cpu machines that *isn't* built around some sort of DataCenter Win2k setup. Of course, you'd have to be doing some serious work to drop 7 figures for a machine, but wouldn't that be sweet?
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