[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso for this link. ]
“Suggest that Linux has been a slowpoke in scalability and Peter
Honeyman will colorfully advise you to think again. Then he’ll
offer a choice word to those who are ‘paid’ to dismiss Linux’s
scaling power. ‘For 32-bit architectures, Linux is at the head of
the pack,’ said Honeyman, director of the Linux Scalability Project
(LSP) at the University of Michigan’s Center for Information
Technology (CITI) and CITI’s scientific director. Honeyman and his
CITI colleagues have studied and helped build Linux’s scalability,
prowess and robustness. Currently, LSP is working on the
open-source Linux client and server for NFS version 4, which is in
the new Linux 2.6 kernel. ‘We are now extending that into highly
parallel access for massive clusters,’ he said.“In this interview, Honeyman offers his views on the current
state of and the future of Linux scalability. He consulted on some
of his responses with colleagues Chuck Lever and Trond
Myklebust…”