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    SubjectRe: Scaling noise
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    On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 06:47, Antonio Vargas wrote:
    > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:25:36AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
    > > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 23:08, Larry McVoy wrote:
    > > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:33:56PM +1000, CaT wrote:
    >
    > > [snip]
    > >
    > > The question which will continue to be important in the next kernel
    > > series is: How to best accommodate the future many-CPU machines without
    > > sacrificing performance on the low-end? The change is that the 'many'
    > > in the above may start to double every few years.
    > >
    > > Some candidate answers to this have been discussed before, such as
    > > cache-coherent clusters. I just hope this gets worked out before the
    > > hardware ships.
    >
    > As you may probably know, CC-clusters were heavily advocated by the
    > same Larry McVoy who has started this thread.
    >

    Yes, thanks. I'm well aware of that. I would like to get a discussion
    going again on CC-clusters, since that seems to be a way out of the
    scaling spiral. Here is an interesting link:
    http://www.opersys.com/adeos/practical-smp-clusters/

    Steven



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