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Posted Wednesday 6th May 2009 09:17 GMT
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Re: I think HP will change course

"Linux chokes at 16 cores now and it will take at least another 5 years to reach 64 cores"

Dear Anonymous idiot. What a load of FUDy old rot. Get with the times. Linux scales happily way beyond that point. Don't believe me, let me point you (with an ironic twist) to the Itanium Solutions Alliance web sight, which has a number of articles on Itanium solutions scaling Linux from 512 cpus and more. The SGI Altix 4700 for example scales up to 1,024 Dual-Core Itanium and 128 TB of globally shared memory: and runs a single Linux system image.

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