Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:28:52 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smp motherboards/concepts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061326390.38754-100000@mammalia.sea> In-Reply-To: <20000406121319.E22104@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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. Is it only useful for running many applications at the same time? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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