There was a solution for the Sun Fire 6800-25k servers that allowed you to do this. The name escapes me, but I know Sun had a course for it and sold it to several universities and of course the US government. Basically it consisted of some HBA's and a custom switch. Back in the E10k and Exx00 days, this was also doable through extending the UPA bus. Solaris has had the strength of scaling out to hundreds of CPU sockets and cores for a while. One of the interesting things I remember from the SPARC roadmap is that the VT Niagara cores would run at 3Ghz and 4-16 cores per chip. The 4 core version would scale up to 192 sockets, so I would have assume that will be the next-gen big iron SPARC server. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to the VT series of Niagara servers. Hopefully we'll see the Rainbow Falls servers announced later this month at the Oracle conference.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: [email protected] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Kyle McDonald <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; Karel Gardas <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 8:49:52 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMiOX/AAoJEEADRM+bKN5woh4H/idoRCYR50tb9cSZWu6V3IxQ lCsvEvj/RJ6Ad0DRCFp9IoTiemG9tikyQ0Wn/s1R34DQyTD6qO/+0P31tGYbOtkK 1nG4ikSpyiTJXkovLPd4EuxyqyYfVlL1QOTz9vEhI4nI5iYlzsUMHMlTGfQYRFAK STVweWbiMJChlMvYBxK09k3/+qmn1E1nJHSK+3dVgcaHVBugRefNP/hZA+ORuIOz e8/vk2480/QMPhX0Bhi3MAxNndg6KQ8NlLktPIMvyzoj/p4Ch6n6d4Q8bA69Dulh YkHqG2iYDpavT6ZGF3Xz+Rf/5+xoZuCLQhyJox+rOPT4AZLwSn7IJvvthq0vnFQ= =EOMK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
