Anton Aylward wrote:
Per Jessen said the following on 06/16/2013 08:37 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Sysvinit may not scale well to really huge machines, but that's a problem I will never have to worry about.
Indeed, since the really massive machines are going to be running AIX or HP/UX or - drum roll, please - VM/CMS.
It probably depends on one's understanding of "really massive machines", but 94% of the TOP500 runs Linux.
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/high-performance/147-high-performance/6...
I meant massive individual machines, not massive clusters of commodity PCs.
I also meant massive machine that people like us are likely to use in our day jobs, the AIX, HP/UX and 'mainframes' that either run a proprietary OS or a version of UNIX specific to that architecture.
Personally speaking, the most massive single box I'm likely to see is probably an HP box with 48 cores and a terabyte of RAM.
I look forward to the day when IBM moves to Linux would love to admin one of IBM's mini-mainframes, those things about the size of a bar fridge or small stove which run many thousand virtual instances of Linux :-)
Where have you been for the last 10 years? :-) 10+ years ago I ran a program for a <large US software firm>, promoting Linux on 390. I wrote sufficient floating-point support in Hercules to run Java on Linux/390 on Hercules. I honestly don't know the state of things today, I've been away from that field for too long, but IBM made that move to Linux long ago. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org