how much does a sugar glass window cost now that sugar and other things are being used for bio fuels?<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Mark Hahn <<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">More specifically for HPC, linux seems designed for the desktop, and<br>for small memory machines.<br></blockquote>
</blockquote><br></div>the only justice I can see in that is that there hasn't been all that much effort to get bigpages widely/easily used. in particular, I don't<br>see that scheduler or general memory-management issues in linux are<br>
particularly biased for desktop or against HPC.
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">That's funny, because I've heard people get scared that it was the complete<br>opposite. That Linux was driven by Big Iron, and that no one cared about<br>
the "little desktop guy" (Con Kolivas is an interesting history example).<br></blockquote><br></div>Con didn't play the game right - you have to have the right combination of social engineering (especially timing and proactive response) and good tech<br>
kungfoo. kernel people are biased towards a certain aesthetic that doesn't<br>punish big-picture redesigns from scratch, but _does_ punish solutions in search of a problem.<br><br>so the question is, if you had a magic wand, what would you change in the kernel (or perhaps libc or other support libs, etc)? most of the things I can think of are not clear-cut. I'd like to be able to give better info from perf counters to our users (but I don't think Linux is really in the way). I suspect we lose some performance due to jitter<br>
injected by the OS (and/or our own monitoring) and would like to improve,<br>but again, it's hard to blame Linux. I'd love to have better options for cluster-aware filesystems. kernel-assisted network shared memory?
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