| From: | Staf Verhaegen |
| Date: | 11 Sep 2000 at 14:23:06 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: SMP Support in Ami ? |
amimjf@connectfree.co.uk wrote:
>
> 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.
Only this is not called SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) but asymmetric
multiprocessing (AMP ? to throw in another acronym) because it performs
multiprocessing on processor with different architecture/performance.
Staf.
THISNAA: THis IS Not An Acronym
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