From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40811060041r57ac87a5x477508ba99347c06@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:41:38 +0100 From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <775b8d190811060007x60ba92a5p922a9780235662a0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10811051753q14a2c762x7f20a7f95f2a1560@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d190811060007x60ba92a5p922a9780235662a0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] on a slightly more fun note Topicbox-Message-UUID: 32fd8b62-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 That's great. Any plan to run it for end users? On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > 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 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 >> >> > >