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Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled,
From: Octave Orgeron <unixconsole () yahoo ! com>
Date: 2010-09-09 15:42:07
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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.
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com
E-Mail: unixconsole@yahoo.com
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----- Original Message ----
From: Kyle McDonald <kmcdonald@egenera.com>
To: Matthias@Pfuetzner.DE
Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org; Karel Gardas <karel.gardas@centrum.cz>
Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 8:49:52 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris
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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
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