loading linux on old hardware

[Warren Togami]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Russo" <brusso at phys.hawaii.edu>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:39 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: loading linux on old hardware


>
> linux 2.4.x has run on a starfire E10K with 24 cpus,
> it should be able to go higher than this. Although frankly Solaris
> might be a better choice at that end.
>
> Of course now there's a sunfire E15k with up to 106 processors..
> tell you what.. send me one and I'll get it working with 2.4...
>
>  - bri

I think the key is "efficiently" scale to a certain number of processors in
SMP.  Those larger machines use some type of partitioning of CPUs and RAM
resources, right?  Linux runs well on partitions on massive IBM S390
machines with dozens to hundreds of processors.