Ubuntu supports 4 sockets (32-cores)?

[p3tris]

Hi everybody,

Does anyone know if Ubuntu supports 4 sockets? I think of buying something like this http://goo.gl/lfKQv and I wonder if Ubuntu will be working OK on it.

Thanks,
Petros

[jobsworth]

I don't see why not.
I would love to try it.

titanus computers on their website offer ubuntu as an operating system,
so it looks like they have tried it out.

I think that most operating systems now support more than one core
up to some power of 2 like 256.
The quantum leap is between one core and more than one core.
After that it doesn't make much difference to the operating system.
It just does more in parallel.
It is only the ALU which is multicore (more than one of them).
The rest of it like the cache and the registers is same as a single core
unless you have more than one socket (I think).
It may be important that you have 4 cpu's that are exactly the same
make and model number, better to buy all 4 at the same time.
I remember a site in Singapore which had a problem about this -
only single cores of course but the principle was the same.

Good luck to you. I am jealous.
Let us know how you get on.