[LINK] Linux poised for desktop failure: Gartner

[Howard Lowndes]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 hartr@interweft.com.au wrote:

>     He sees Linux becoming more scalable in the next 24 months,
>     while providing the same performance, and believes eight-way servers
>     will be "doable".
>
> Pardon? Where has Gartner been for the last 2 years?
>
> Linux has been handling 8 way servers *well* since the release of the
> Linux 2.4 kernel (and 8 CPUs since the 2.2 kernel). In fact, Linux
> scales reasonably beyond 8 way servers - but NOT on Intel 32 bit
> processors, as there has been no standard way for the HARDWARE to handle
> this number of CPUs. However, using Alphas, SPARCs and Itaniums, Linux
> has been out to 24 CPUs (IIRC) and quite probably beyond.

Question to Robert. What is "8 way servers" as against 8CPU's?  Are we
talking clustering or what?

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