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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Wed,  8 Jul 2009 15:30:38 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS
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> But don't underestimate the value of the interesting ideas in the
> linux kernel that get the performance, e.g. RCU. I don't think there
> are any OSes that have scaled to 4096 CPUs at this point besides
> Linux.

i thought that massively parallel harvard-arch machines had
generally fallen out of favor in favor of blue gene-style hardware.

is this incorrect?

- erik