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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=amp

• 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.