Re: Intel vs Sparc

From: Alan Hargreaves <Alan.Hargreaves_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:30:06 +1100
Message-ID: <b2eova$gch$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>

DA Morgan wrote:
>
>>/Rauf Sarwar
>
>
> What Linux needs is something Sun, HP, and IBM are working on right now that I have heard referred to as N+1. The
> ability to share CPU resources between machines. Not just software parallelizing between multiple CPUs on one machine
> ... but the operating system parallelizing between CPUs on all machines in a data center. And it is a capability that
> will begin to be offered in about one year.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>

Would the software you are talking about be the N1 provisioning server that was announced in the webcast yesterday? Not quite what you are suggesting but interesting none the less.

alan. Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 18:30:06 CST