Not that it helps any, but the Rock chip was s'posed to have up to 256 threads per core and some code in OpenSolaris points to 8 cpu boxes planned on being delivered with Rock chips in them, which according to the register would give 2048 threads/cores:
"Also of note, we've discovered that Sun's next version of Solaris has been tweaked to handle up to 256 cores with an option to stretch all the way to 2048 cores. (Sun seems to be interchanging cores and threads at this point.)"
Yeah I know Rock never shipped, and was never ready in time to be the Intel killer it should have been</rant> but the code to deal with that amount of cores and threads is still in OpenSolaris, even if the rock identification specific code has been removed from OpenSolaris around build 122:
Solaris 7 was the last version of Solaris to only scale to 64 cpu's, Solaris 8-10 scaled to 144 cpu's according to documentation I've seen, and older documents on Sun's website (links from the Oracle site seem to only burn my fingers)
Yes, that's not talking about 4096 cpu's but the FUD of 64 processors limit on (a straight out of the box) Solaris just hasn't existed in about 11 years.
"Also of note, we've discovered that Sun's next version of Solaris has been tweaked to handle up to 256 cores with an option to stretch all the way to 2048 cores. (Sun seems to be interchanging cores and threads at this point.)"
Yeah I know Rock never shipped, and was never ready in time to be the Intel killer it should have been</rant> but the code to deal with that amount of cores and threads is still in OpenSolaris, even if the rock identification specific code has been removed from OpenSolaris around build 122:
Solaris 7 was the last version of Solaris to only scale to 64 cpu's, Solaris 8-10 scaled to 144 cpu's according to documentation I've seen, and older documents on Sun's website (links from the Oracle site seem to only burn my fingers)
Yes, that's not talking about 4096 cpu's but the FUD of 64 processors limit on (a straight out of the box) Solaris just hasn't existed in about 11 years.
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