Enterprise Linux Conference

[Jerry Feldman]

This is true. Hp, Digital/Compaq/HP, and IBM have invested a lot of money 
into the scaling of their commercial Unixes on large multi-CPU systems. 
AFAIk, Linux does not scale well above something like 4 processors.
David Kramer wrote:

> At a panel today, an IBM head said exactly that.  Essentially, for 
> applicaitons that need to run on one box with lots of processors and lots 
> of RAM, AIX is still their solution.  For applicaitons that can be split 
> up and run on a cluster, Linux is better.
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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