Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:13:20 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smp motherboards/concepts Message-ID: <20000406121319.E22104@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061111070.36652-100000@mammalia.sea>; from rjoseph@speakeasy.org on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:32:53AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061111070.36652-100000@mammalia.sea>
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* R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org> [000406 12:07] wrote: > I know FreeBSD supports multiple processors, but how many? What > motherboard(s) support more than two, for example using a pentium pro? People have been known to use FreeBSD in quad processor systems. > > Is the concept of SMP similar to beowulf clusters? I've read a little > about those, and as I understand, simply clustering many computers together > does not guarantee a faster system, if the software is not especially > compiled to handle it. Is this also true of SMP? I'm specifically > thinking of using an SMP system for doing raytracing. The SMP you get with FreeBSD would be multiple processors in a single system, unless you can break down your raytracing application into multiple processes to act on different threads at the same time you won't see any improvement. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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