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To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (3923)12/31/1997 2:11:00 PM
From: Patrick Gainer  Read Replies (1) of 14451
 
"You are right to say that 'scaling to 16 processors
requires no magic', but doing it so you can actually
use the machines usefully with good throughput,
instead of just to enable bragging, is slightly more
complex ;)."

But only slightly. I would argue it is very straightforward
for any competent software engineer with a bit of experience.

Certainly I am nothing special as a software engineer but
when I worked in the SGI system software group, it was very
straightforward for me to fix the Irix SVR4 system
semaphores such that they scaled very well, to 32 cpus.

Pat
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