On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Sadly, due to market realities and diminished customer demand for large > monolithic servers, the biggest x86 box Unisys now sells is an 8-way 4U > Xeon box. Though with up to 80 cores, 332x times the memory bandwidth, > and similarly higher IO bus bandwidth, it runs circles around the > monster 32 socket mainframe style boxes of yesterday.
You can go to SGI for suitably large n-way Linux servers. An SGI UV 2k rack will go up to 256 Intel E5 processors (2048 cores, 4096 threads), 64TB RAM. http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/uv/ I don't think the UV has mainframe-style hardware partitioning. It is a big NUMA box with a complex hypercube-like node topology. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120828104000.ga...@khazad-dum.debian.net
