how much does a sugar glass window cost now that sugar and other things are being used for bio fuels?
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > More specifically for HPC, linux seems designed for the desktop, and >>> for small memory machines. >>> >> > the only justice I can see in that is that there hasn't been all that much > effort to get bigpages widely/easily used. in particular, I don't > see that scheduler or general memory-management issues in linux are > particularly biased for desktop or against HPC. > > That's funny, because I've heard people get scared that it was the complete >> opposite. That Linux was driven by Big Iron, and that no one cared about >> the "little desktop guy" (Con Kolivas is an interesting history example). >> > > Con didn't play the game right - you have to have the right combination of > social engineering (especially timing and proactive response) and good tech > kungfoo. kernel people are biased towards a certain aesthetic that doesn't > punish big-picture redesigns from scratch, but _does_ punish solutions in > search of a problem. > > so the question is, if you had a magic wand, what would you change in the > kernel (or perhaps libc or other support libs, etc)? most of the things I > can think of are not clear-cut. I'd like to be able to give better info > from perf counters to our users (but I don't think Linux is really in the > way). I suspect we lose some performance due to jitter > injected by the OS (and/or our own monitoring) and would like to improve, > but again, it's hard to blame Linux. I'd love to have better options for > cluster-aware filesystems. kernel-assisted network shared memory? > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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