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[News] Discussion About the Limits of Linux (Kernel Space)

  • Subject: [News] Discussion About the Limits of Linux (Kernel Space)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:01:33 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/4.3.1
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Limits?

,----[ Quote ]
| How big? How many? How long? Questions about 
| the limit on things in Linux abound.
`----

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2010/01/limits

Wow. Big numbers. OS X and Windows are like toys in comparison...


Recent:

Linux rulz: Top500 says so

,----[ Quote ]
| Todayâs release of the list of the top 500
| supercomputers shows that well over 90% are
| running Linux.  Also, IBMâs Roadrunner has
| finally been dethroned; in a big way!
`----

http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29362&Itemid=53


Linux dominates top 500 supercomputer list

,----[ Quote ]
| The latest Top 500 Supercomputer list is
| now out (see my colleague Andy Patrizio's
| story on InternetNews.com), with the top
| rig doubling its performance to 1.75
| petaflops.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/linux-dominates-top-500-superc.html


Jaguar supercomputer races past Roadrunner in Top500

,----[ Quote ]
| The most popular operating system is Linux,
| with 90 percent of the Top500.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10397627-92.html


China joins supercomputer elite

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| The IBM computer is owned by the Department
| of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory
| in New Mexico and was the first machine to
| push through the petaflop barrier.
|
| It is currently able to run at 1.042 petaflops and uses the powerful
| "cell" chip designed for the PlayStation 3.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8362825.stm


PelicanHPC GNU Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| 13 Nov 2009. version 1.9.3 is available
| here (thanks LinuxTracker). This fixes a
| security vulnerability, for more
| information, see
| http://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr. Also
| has some new examples. Probably has a major
| showstopper bug, this is Friday the 13th,
| afterall.
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http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/
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