[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> I might guess that the service processor is x86, and that starting with 
> gentoo for the compute nodes was simpler than starting with Linux From 
> Scratch, really doing it from scratch, or making a special embedded 
> kernel or RTOS for the hardware.

Sounds a reasonable theory. the service processor being x86 and all.  ;)
 I guess I'm just wondering why they didn't use Gentoo on the service
processor too.


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