[Beowulf] Moores Law is dying

[Joe Landman]

Christian Bell wrote:

> I agree with Joe that as the shared memory system scales, the once 
> subtle potential cache coherency problems can become quite an impediment 
> to performance.  However, I'd think (or at least hope) that we could 
> agree on the simpler things, like read-only text.

[note to self:  make /dev/kmem read only, and step back from the 
keyboard .... mwhahaha! oops a typooooooooooooooooooooo  zzzzt


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