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That sounds pretty cool, I guess the idea was that the scheduler could figure out smartly where to put applications and minimize latency in the process?
by tombert 2y ago
That sounds pretty cool, I guess the idea was that the scheduler could figure out smartly where to put applications and minimize latency in the process?
- kjellsbells 2y agoYes, much like you would in an HPC system (much of Cellular IRIX was supposed to have been influenced by what Cray and SGI learned from each other when they merged). More details (PDF) here. Remember this is from 1998. Reading it again in 2024 there is of course quite a bit of foreshadowing of what we ended up with in cloud. And you won't be surprised to learn that the author ended up passing significant time working at both Microsoft and AWS after their SGI days. https://cug.org/5-publications/proceedings_attendee_lists/1998CD/S98PROC/AUTHORS/BRONER/ACROBAT.PDF https://cug.org/5-publications/proceedings_attendee_lists/19...