Re: Intel vs Sparc
From: Alan Hargreaves <Alan.Hargreaves_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:36:26 +1100
Message-ID: <b2fee7$nuh$1_at_new-usenet.uk.sun.com>
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> I have no idea what was announced yesterday. My information comes from meeting with hardware vendors over the last six
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> Daniel Morgan
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Received on Thu Feb 13 2003 - 07:36:26 CET
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:36:26 +1100
Message-ID: <b2fee7$nuh$1_at_new-usenet.uk.sun.com>
Have a look at http://www.sun.com/bignews/provisioning/
DA Morgan wrote:
> Alan Hargreaves wrote:
>>>DA Morgan wrote: >>>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.
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> I have no idea what was announced yesterday. My information comes from meeting with hardware vendors over the last six
> months.
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> Daniel Morgan
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Received on Thu Feb 13 2003 - 07:36:26 CET