loading linux on old hardware

[Epsas Nova]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:57:10AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> ----- 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.

I believe that Linux effectively runs as a guest OS under the native S/390 Operating System.  I may be wrong, but I believe that is how they operate.