Re: Scalability Question

2014-07-04 Thread Nick Krause
That's true. Cheers Nick On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Nick Krause wrote: >> The most powerful super computer runs Ubuntu with over 3.2 million cores. > > These kind of computers don't run a single kernel. > See grid computing. > >>

Re: Scalability Question

2014-07-04 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Nick Krause wrote: > The most powerful super computer runs Ubuntu with over 3.2 million cores. These kind of computers don't run a single kernel. See grid computing. > There fore I can state that Linux is very good at scaling as I have seem > the other side with e

Re: Scalability Question

2014-07-04 Thread Nick Krause
The most powerful super computer runs Ubuntu with over 3.2 million cores. There fore I can state that Linux is very good at scaling as I have seem the other side with embedded systems. Cheers Nick On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 16:40 -0400, Nick Kra

Re: Scalability Question

2014-07-04 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 16:40 -0400, Nick Krause wrote: > I am curious after reading some outdated kernel papers, how scalable > is the kernel of > late? I am curious mostly in memory and cpu subsystems as file systems > will change > based on user's choice. You can currently configure for up to 81