| From: | Patrick Roberts |
| Date: | 11 Sep 2000 at 17:46:43 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: SMP Support in Ami ? |
Not only AMP. but network AMP (NAMP ?)
Staf Verhaegen wrote:
>
> 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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