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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:00:40 +0800
From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 8 cores
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
> That being said, while huge scalability is certainly research-worthy, does anyone actually run anything on Plan 9 that needs or would otherwise benefit from 8+ CPUs and more than a few GB's of RAM?

 The Blue gene HPC folks come to mind.

> Furthermore, does anyone out there run Plan 9 on non-x86 hardware anymore?

 Some people would like to, but to my knowledge fourth edition hasn't
been ported to any other platforms. I've heard rumors of a near
complete x86_64 port, and there's occasional interest in sparc and ppc
ports.
-sqweek