Re: MadMike Re: Solaris for high end, said Larry
".....Linux does not scale well beyond 8-sockets...." Er, have you heard of this stuff called "grid computing"? Very popular with Linux since 1998, there was even a SUN version called Sun Grid Engine but that was a piece of SUN software that didn't survive Larry's stripping of the SUN carcass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Grid_Engine). Mind you, Beowulf is a bit old hat for today's whippersnappers. But today's Red Hat's vanilla clustering scales to 16 nodes, and I can remember building RHEL 5 instances across 16 Itanium2 sockets (and those were dual-cores) on hp Superdomes back in the day and then clustering those instances up into four-way clusters - absolutely trounced SPARC Slowaris in billing system trials. Maybe you need to update your Linux knowledge.
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