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Date: Thu,  6 Nov 2008 10:07:21 +0200
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note
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That's nearly as many cores as I have gates! Very good indeed - just
don't say "Hooter's Girls" to Mr Van Hensbergen.

brucee

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> 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
>
>