Re: SGI Freeware Feb. 2004

From: I R A Darth Aggie (sy_nttvr_at_gurcragntba.pbz)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: 30 Jan 2004 15:24:26 GMT

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:54:35 GMT,
S.Chang <shu.chang@mapson.ieee.org>, in
<LJqSb.1470$gK4.14231675@news-text.cableinet.net> wrote:

>+ Is that all you know? open source? take a look into GPL, it has more
>+ restrictions than commercial softwares,

Have you actually *read* the typical EULA that comes with those
commercial softwares? Have you actually *read* the GPL?

>+ at least I can use commercial Unix and know everything we developed
>+ in the lab can be published without any questions being asked by the
>+ vendors, can you do that with softwares under GPL?

Huh? this doesn't parse for me.

If anything, third party resellers should be asking their
closed-source software vendors if they're cheating in the production
cycle by violating the GPL and including purloined GPL code and
placing it into their offerings.

>+ Not everything is all abut parallel processing, how many CPUs can Linux
>+ handle in an SMP system? 2? 4? 8? how about over 100 CPUs in vertical
>+ config? can "young" Linux handle that?

http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/whitepapers/index.html

Linux Scalability for the Altix 3000 (PDF 85K)
This paper describes how SGI adapted the SGI Linux Environment to
support single system scalability to 128 processors, and developed an
overall operating environment specifically for HPC applications.

James 

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