A side note on performance

[Richard Irving]

Ok. That did it..

  Linux for "Blue Gene", anyone ?

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/09/29/ibm.supercomputer.ap/index.html


   "IBM: Blue Gene breaks speed record"

   I know, it is sort of off topic, but interesting.


  http://top500.org/list/2004/06/


  Shoot, the AlphaServer SC45 slipped to third fastest Super Computing
Platform in the World in 2004.

   They are starting to catch up to her, in her OLD AGE.




Donsbach, Jeff wrote:
> Booting an alternate kernel from MILO is pretty easy. So if you can just
> have an alternate kernel sitting there on the CD with the only change
> being the use of LEGACY_START_ADDRESS, it should be easy for MILO users
> to boot that alternate kernel.
> 
> Mike Barnes wrote:
> 
>>Looks like the best move would be to switch that option over for the
> 
> default kernel, at this point.
> 
>>Given that we ONLY have SRM support in the distro right now, it might
> 
> as well be as broad as possible.
> 
>>I'll rebuild the kernels that way for 0.91.
>>
>>I'll look into the possibility of doing a really stripped-down
> 
> bootstrap CD in the interim so the
> 
>>platforms that can't boot the current kernel can get into the
> 
> installer.
> 
>>I'll also give myself a bit of a crash course in MILO over the weekend
> 
> and see what I can do with my
> 
>>PWS433. At least I can boot it from SRM while messing around.
> 
> 
> 
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