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Date: Wed,  5 Nov 2008 19:55:42 -0800
From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note
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Really cool! Are you going to talk about this @SuperComputing?

Thanks,
Roman.

On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:53 PM, ron minnich wrote:

> Just booted Plan 9 on a 1024+16 node BG/P this week. .
>
> All credit to jmk, ericvh, and charles for this fantastic test run and
> the existence of this new kernel.
>
> Plan is to double it just a few times until we hit 65536 or so. Then
> the fun begins: turning on all cores, so we get to
> 262144 cpus.
>
> Boots kinda fast, too. It's peppy. No current plans to run acme,
> though we have run rio on a bg/l cpu node in 2007, as ericvh related
> on his blog.
>
> managing output is interesting in this world.
>
> ron
>