| Armadillo | smp = procesaminto simetrico???? |
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| Armadillo | o multiprocesador, que significa |
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| HoraPe | multiprocesamiento simetrico |
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| HoraPe | multiprocesador simetrico, si quieres |
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| Armadillo | okye |
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| Nurbs | what about common IA64 boxes? |
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| mbligh | Nurbs: most ia64 boxen aren't NUMA |
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| sydb | If/when you're taking questions: I'm interested how Linux Numa compares with proprietary numa (e.g. AIX)... also is Numa a stopgap while "real" SMP scales up cheaply? Who is using Numa on Linux and why? |
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| mbligh | will come back to that in a sec. |
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| Nurbs | mbligh: thanks |
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| sydb | are there enough people working on Numa in Linux to catch up with the competition? Is it worth more people getting involved? |
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| sydb | can you do Numa with normal non-numa hardware (emulate over ethernet?) thus open development up? |
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| sydb | lol |
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| athkhz | How about NUMA in other architectures like PPC970? |
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| clsk | What's your personal opinion about microkernels vs. conventional kernels? (i'm sorry if i'm going a little bit too much off the topic) |
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| sydb | the "lol" was to your no competition statement! |
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| mbligh | sydb: heh. sorry |
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| sydb | thanks |
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| Arador | Why it's said that athlons are somewhat close to a "small NUMA" system? |
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| pepita | has openmosix something to do with this? |
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| dats | numa ke es exactamente ? |
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| sydb | the lower the ratio the better, no? |
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| sydb | so athlon Numa is better! |
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| pepita | why don't you like ssi clusters? what's "wrong with them? |
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| Armadillo | oye please alguien le puede traducir esto: Numa que tipo de interconexion una red hipercubo y usa algun protocolo de red especial, o todo esta gestionado por hardware???? |
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| clsk | te refieres a que tipo de interconexion usa Armadillo? |
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| mbligh | someone'll have to translate that for me ;-) |
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| clsk | Armadillo asks: Numa is what type of interconnector in a hypercube network and does it use some type of special network protocol, or is it all managed by the hardware? |
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| clsk | dats asks: what is exactly Numa? |
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| pepita | sorry for my questions about ssi clusters.... i'm just a newbie... thanks for the answers... |
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| Armadillo | gracias clsk |
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| clsk | de nada |
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| dats | thank you clsk |
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| clsk | np dats |
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| mbligh | pepita: no problem at all. |
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| mbligh | dats: see the start of the presentation ;-) |
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| clsk | dice que veas el principio de la presentacion |
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| dats | thank's to all :) |
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| mbligh | <mbligh> NUMA = non-uniform memory architecture |
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| mbligh | <mbligh> where we basically have an SMP machine with non-uniform characteristics - memory, cpus, and IO buses are not equally spaced from each other. |
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| mbligh | <mbligh> The reason for this is that it's very hard (and expensive) to build a flat uniform SMP machine of > 4CPUs or so |
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| clsk | well... why do you think microkernel are inefficient if they force your system to be in some way safe |
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