“Partha Narayanan, from IBM, recently posted some benchmark perfomance results for Ingo’s O(1) Scheduler. The tests were run on an 8-way 700Mhz Pentium III, with several comparisons. […] The end result is around an 18% improvement with a single CPU, around a 45% improvement with 4 CPUs, and around a 187% improvement with 8 CPUs. Pretty impressive!” Read the rest of the article and see the benchmark results at KernelTrap.
Linux: O(1) Scheduler Benchmarks
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Help, I am trying to find a motherboard that supports 8 P-III or P-IV but can only find completed servers. Any pointers to 8-way motherboards. Even 4 way would be fine if the price is right.
I don’t think you can just go out and buy that kind of motherboard for a home built system. I have only seen dual motherboards for the do it yourselfer.
You could call these guys and ask them what they use.
http://www.integritylinux.com/8cpuxeonsmp.html
If you are going to spend this kind of money, why not consider a cluster?
If you can use Linux then this company builds a slick cluster of G3 or G4 processors.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/briQ/hpc.shtml
disclaimer; I have no connections to these companys.
Basicly, BeOS works well with such systems as the diffirent tasks spread out over the diffirent CPUs. While not cheap, there is usually a big diffirence if the price of a bare board + parts to build vs a completely assembled unit.