Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 20 Jun 2002 23:34:54 -0600 |
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Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com> writes:
> "Beating the SMP horse to death" does make sense for 2 processor SMP > machines. When 64 processor machines become commodity (Linux is a > commodity hardware OS) something will have to be done. When research > groups put Linux on 1k processors - it's an experiment. I don't think they > have much right to complain that Linux doesn't scale up to that level - > it's not designed to. > > That being said, large clusters are an interesting research area but it is > _not_ a failing of Linux that it doesn't scale to them.
Linux in a classic beowulf configuration scales just fine. To be clear I am talking a batch scheduling system, where the jobs which run for hours at a time and on many nodes, possibly the entire cluster at a time. Are scheduled on some number of commodity systems, with a good network interconnect.
The concern now is not does it work, or does it work well. But can it be made more convenient to use.
Eric
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