Originally posted by liam
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Regarding that post you link to: yes, it was long. But you know what? He never answered to my question: why are there no 16 cpu Linux servers for sale? There are only 8 socket Linux servers for sale, and 2048 cpu clusters (SGI Altix and the like), but there are no 16 or 32 cpu socket Linux for sale. If you read his post, he never answered to that question, he ducked that question every time I asked it. Why? So, can somebody show me a 16 or 32 Linux SMP server for sale today? Or are you going to duck this question again?
And he claimed lot of things, that there are no SMP servers today. How does he know that? For instance, this server is SMP
but he says: "no that is not true, it is not a SMP server, it is a NUMA server". Why should I believe him? Have he really checked that all servers are NUMA today? For instance, the old IBM Mainframes that are sold even today, are SMP servers. "There are no SMP servers today, all are NUMA" - yeah right. How can he prove that? If I would post such a claim, I would have posted links that shown that each big 32 cpu server is NUMA - then I would be able to conclude "there are no SMP servers today" - but he never did that. Instead he claimed false things, and ducked my question.
And again: where are those 16 or 32 cpu Linux servers for sale? How many times can people here duck that question? Actually, I have asked this question maybe... 50? times here in different threads, and I have never. ever. got. an. answer. I think it is funny. Benchmarks show Linux have performance problems on 8-socket servers, and there are no 16 or 32 cpu linux servers for sale. And no one have discussed this, everybody have ducked this.
For the 51th(?) time: where are those 16 cpu Linux servers for sale? Where are they? Can someone answer me this? Have you tried to ask a question 50 times, to different persons, and never got an answer? Wouldnt you wonder why? Where are those servers? Where? Someone? It just takes some links, and I will stop asking this question. But no one have posted links. I will ask this question 50 times more, but no one will ever show me 16 cpu Linux servers. Why? Because they dont exist. Why? Because Linux can not scale to 16 cpus.
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