[plug] Microsoft researchers recommend Linux!

[Leon Brooks]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:21, indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU wrote:
> On a related note, whilst giving appropriate kudos to Beowulf types,
> it's important to recognize that while many science problems are
> explicitly "parallelizable" and thus get good results on a Beowulf,
> there are a bunch that are not and big iron with a big iron system is
> the way to go. IBM wants to develop Linux in those directions, but it
> ain't there yet.

SGI Altix? AFAIK "only" 64 CPUs in an image, might be 512, but they are 
optimised Itanic 2's. The only way to do better is with a single-CPU 
monster, and I think we're hitting physics limits on that one.

Cheers; Leon