From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 0:53:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from satan.freebsdsystems.com (24.69.168.6.on.wave.home.com [24.69.168.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A07B37C20E for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@satan.freebsdsystems.com) Received: (from lnb@localhost) by satan.freebsdsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA02226; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:56:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lnb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000406121319.E22104@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 03:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Organization: FreeBSD Systems Inc. From: Lanny Baron To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: smp motherboards/concepts Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, R Joseph Wright Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, How well will snp handle an 8way system? Lnb On 06-Apr-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * R Joseph Wright [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 Lanny Baron, Master FreeBSD Administrator ---------------------------------- Date: 07-Apr-00 Time: 03:56:07 "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." -- Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad" ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message