Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:27:15 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: Does Solaris really scale this well? |
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 11:53:16AM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote: > From: > http://www.itworld.com/Man/3828/020816mcnealy/ > > Scott McNealy: > > "When you take a 99-way UltraSPARC III machine and add a 100th processor, > you get 94 percent linear scalability. You can't get 94 percent linear > scalability on your first Intel chip. It's very, very hard to do, and they > have not done it."
Conditionally... I would like to know the exact architecture, and the problem set running in the system to say.
When you have noncc-NUMA, you have a Beowulf-like setup. when you have cc-NUMA ("cc" = cache coherent), things get truly hairy... - 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/
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