Enterprise Linux Conference

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 11:06 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 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.

Speakers today were talking about Linux scaling well to 8 processors today, 
and the next major kernel scaling up to 12 due to code IBM is folding back 
into it from their own work.

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