...what? I think you don't know what "SMP" stands for. It has nothing to do with big iron vs. consumer kit, and everything to do with the processor configuration. And SSI [thefreedictionary.com] means nothing unambiguous as far as I can tell, at least in relation to CPU's. Perhaps you can help? The serious SGI kit you reference really only has a difference in the CPU architecture... it should scale just as well on Itanic as well as it does on x86/x86-64.
But I'm probably rising to a troll. Or an idiot. Or both.
Considering those SGI's 1024 CPU thingies are not SMP machines I'm guessing it's established who the idiot is...
Well, I don't think that quite qualifies as 'idiot'. NUMA scalability is still relevant and interesting - and some such systems are indeed SMP (ie systems with a single node) - their Altix ICE seems to go up to 2 quad-core Xeons per node, which would be 8 (it seems to be very similar to one of the configs they used in TFA).
In any case, I didn't mention which "serious SGI" kit. Even their power series [blinkenlights.nl] systems back in the '80s went upto 8 CPUS (4D380S), and they've had several different architectures since (
Wow. An apology on/. - I'm not sure how to respond to that. So unusual.:p
btw, 'ssi' stands for 'single system image' - the concept that the entire computer is running a single copy of the OS and so each application has access to all the resources of the computer...or something like that. It's supposed to exclude clusters since they don't work well with some application/problems.
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Get it to scale on some serious SGI kit, for example, then we'll talk.
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But I'm probably rising to a troll. Or an idiot. Or both.
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Considering those SGI's 1024 CPU thingies are not SMP machines I'm guessing it's established who the idiot is...
Well, I don't think that quite qualifies as 'idiot'. NUMA scalability is still relevant and interesting - and some such systems are indeed SMP (ie systems with a single node) - their Altix ICE seems to go up to 2 quad-core Xeons per node, which would be 8 (it seems to be very similar to one of the configs they used in TFA).
In any case, I didn't mention which "serious SGI" kit. Even their power series [blinkenlights.nl] systems back in the '80s went upto 8 CPUS (4D380S), and they've had several different architectures since (
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btw, 'ssi' stands for 'single system image' - the concept that the entire computer is running a single copy of the OS and so each application has access to all the resources of the computer