You (Kyle McDonald)wrote:
> On 9/9/2010 9:15 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote:
> > Remember: Even withe the old E10K, Solaris at GA date was capable
> > to use all that hardware from a single kernel... And that's more
> > than 12 years back... ;-) So, scaling on cores, CPUs and thread is
> > what Solaris still does better than any other big commercial OS on
> > this planet...
> >
> It never shipped, (well it did kinda, but not in it's full glory) but
> the group I was in at Sun had developed HW to connect multiple E6K,
> and E10K machines (up to 16 if I remember correctly) together, and
> scale a single kernel instance across all of them.
>
> There just weren't enough places interested in buying a machine that
> large.
>
> -Kyle
No, I was not talking about that, I simply meant: The E10K had 64 CPUs and at
GA date, Solaris was ready to use 64 CPUs from a single kernel... Unlike the
IBM 795, which can currently have MORE CPUs than AIX is capable of
handling... ;-)
Yes, I know about all those "single image" things ACROSS boxes, but that's
not, what I meant in my post... ;-)
Matthias
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