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Subject: Enterprise Linux Conference
From: gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:06:47 -0500
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:30:57 EST." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212041928540.9344-100000@uni.thekramers.net>

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.
> 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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