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So, what OS do these run? Is it oem provided custom kernels or third party?

boudin 6y ago
Runs Linux natively it seems: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-altra-q80&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-a...
- kumarvvr 6y ago
  Wow. Never knew Linux architecture allowed it to scale on hardware in such a way. Edit : I know Linux is customized to run on a variety of hardware, I was just pointing out that I never knew you could install Ubuntu on the mentioned hardware and have it take advantage of the available hardware, given that it has specialized hardware.
  - corty 6y ago
    Linux ran on 512 processor Altix machines more than a decade ago already.
  - ur-whale 6y ago
    Linux has been running on 2000+ core machines for longer than a decade (at least): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4507/how-many-cores-can-linux-kernel-handle https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4507/how-many-cores...
    - oblio 6y ago
      The last time discussions about Linux and SMP were hip, its competitors were Windows 2000 and 2003 :-D
      - twic 6y ago
        Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
    - Ivoah 6y ago
      https://xkcd.com/619/ https://xkcd.com/619/
  - panpanna 6y ago
    Most (> 98%?) supercomputers run Linux. Has been so for many years.
    - bee_rider 6y ago
      Those are mostly a bazillion nodes with a couple dozen Xeon cores each, wired up together (over a very nice interconnect). Each Linux instance only has to handle the cores for a single node. That said, I agree with you that it isn't particularly surprising that Linux handles lots of cores fine, it's been run on more esoteric hardware for ages.
    - pjmlp 6y ago
      Ironically with IBM tooling though, many of those computers use xlc toolchain.
floatboth 6y ago
Anything that's SBSA compliant (supports ACPI, basically)… and ready to run on a massive machine with (for some reason) very sparsely populated huge physical memory address space. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/d7704f9e75aafd312a3a1f03835b9b5ff92a3436 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/d7704f9e75aafd312a... https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/5786fe85813a41132711a5d4cd9564cb1a624b15 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/5786fe85813a411327... https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/3ef92b2f0a0ff3f1011e5cff7be717b171b47d7e https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/3ef92b2f0a0ff3f101... https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/1f181d2512f60098ed7cde3326efb9a745de419d https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/1f181d2512f60098ed...

Runs Linux natively it seems: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-altra-q80&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-a...

kumarvvr 6y ago
Wow. Never knew Linux architecture allowed it to scale on hardware in such a way. Edit : I know Linux is customized to run on a variety of hardware, I was just pointing out that I never knew you could install Ubuntu on the mentioned hardware and have it take advantage of the available hardware, given that it has specialized hardware.
- corty 6y ago
  Linux ran on 512 processor Altix machines more than a decade ago already.
- ur-whale 6y ago
  Linux has been running on 2000+ core machines for longer than a decade (at least): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4507/how-many-cores-can-linux-kernel-handle https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4507/how-many-cores...
  - oblio 6y ago
    The last time discussions about Linux and SMP were hip, its competitors were Windows 2000 and 2003 :-D
    - twic 6y ago
      Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
  - Ivoah 6y ago
    https://xkcd.com/619/ https://xkcd.com/619/
- panpanna 6y ago
  Most (> 98%?) supercomputers run Linux. Has been so for many years.
  - bee_rider 6y ago
    Those are mostly a bazillion nodes with a couple dozen Xeon cores each, wired up together (over a very nice interconnect). Each Linux instance only has to handle the cores for a single node. That said, I agree with you that it isn't particularly surprising that Linux handles lots of cores fine, it's been run on more esoteric hardware for ages.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    Ironically with IBM tooling though, many of those computers use xlc toolchain.

floatboth 6y ago

Anything that's SBSA compliant (supports ACPI, basically)… and ready to run on a massive machine with (for some reason) very sparsely populated huge physical memory address space. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/d7704f9e75aafd312a3a1f03835b9b5ff92a3436 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/d7704f9e75aafd312a... https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/5786fe85813a41132711a5d4cd9564cb1a624b15 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/5786fe85813a411327... https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/3ef92b2f0a0ff3f1011e5cff7be717b171b47d7e https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/3ef92b2f0a0ff3f101... https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/1f181d2512f60098ed7cde3326efb9a745de419d https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/1f181d2512f60098ed...