Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:39:52 +0200 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On 10/3/05, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2005 19:48, Rik van Riel wrote: > >On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Ahh, yes and no, Robert. The un-answered question, for that > >> 512 processor Altix system, would be "but does it run things 512 > >> times faster?" Methinks not, by a very wide margin. Yes, do a lot > >> of unrelated things fast maybe, but render a 30 megabyte page with > >> ghostscript in 10 milliseconds? Never happen IMO. > > > >You haven't explained us why you think your proposal > >would allow Linux to circumvent Amdahl's law... > > Amdahl's Law? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law http://home.wlu.edu/~whaleyt/classes/parallel/topics/amdahl.html
And google has even more. Wonderful thing those search engines...
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