| From: | amimjf |
| Date: | 11 Sep 2000 at 13:47:00 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: SMP Support in Ami ? |
Hi,.
>Will the finished Ami DE support SMP in any given box?
>I am planning on building a new system shortly - something
>in a dual Athlon once the AMD SMP chipset is out
>(somewhere in September/October).
>From the docs, it seems that elate will do multi-processing across
multiple cpus, on one bus or across a number of busses (server clusters)
so you should be quite safe with any smp bios.
BTW cos its vp smp, you could have a cluster of alpha, mips, ppc, intel
etc boxes load shareing the same software processess.
>Will the DE use the second processor? I know it has been stated
>that Ami does Asymmetric MP- would that render >1 processor
>unusable under Ami? I know QNX still supports SMP, but
>what are Ami's plans/possibitities?
Well vpcode like most asm (except on special vector processors), is
sequential, as is the C/C++ and Java code is generated from. However with
a second cpu the kernel should migrate processes out to the lighest loaded
cpu, so if you have to 3dfx demos running in two windows, and the window
manager/gfx subsysm is threaded (sorry lightweight processed) enough then
each window should be updated by a diffrent cpu.
If i am just talking rubbish ignore me,..
regards
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Matthew J Fletcher
Serck Controls Ltd
NPD Firmware
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