Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jul 2014 05:44:42 +0200 | Subject | Re: Scalability Question | From | Richard Weinberger <> |
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On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote: > The most powerful super computer runs Ubuntu with over 3.2 million cores.
These kind of computers don't run a single kernel. See grid computing.
> There fore I can state that Linux is very good at scaling as I have seem > the other side with embedded systems. > Cheers Nick > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Mike Galbraith > <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 16:40 -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >>> I am curious after reading some outdated kernel papers, how scalable >>> is the kernel of >>> late? I am curious mostly in memory and cpu subsystems as file systems >>> will change >>> based on user's choice. >> >> You can currently configure for up to 8192 CPUs. I've not seen any >> benchmark data whatsoever for huge boxen, have no idea where which >> subsystem crumbles. SGI asked for the increase to 8192, so presumably >> do manage to squeeze acceptable performance out of size XXXXL boxen. >> >> -Mike >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- Thanks, //richard
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