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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/1 Donald Becker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:becker@scyld.com">becker@scyld.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"><br> </div> It's foreseeable that holding an 8GB install<br>image in memory will be trivial, but that will be a few years in the<br>future, not today. And we will need better VM and PTE management to make<br>
it efficient.<br>
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<div>Hmmmm.... can I forsee Puppy Linux HPC Edition ????</div>
<div><a href="http://www.puppylinux.org/">http://www.puppylinux.org/</a></div>
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<div>Being half serious here, is it worth trying to get one of these slimmed-down distros to the state where it will run an HPC job?</div>
<div>Oh, and in addition to a barebones install for our contemplative cluster, they have a onebones install which cuts out the GUI (cue more dog puns).</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.puppylinux.com/pfs/">http://www.puppylinux.com/pfs/</a> looks interesting...</div></div></div>