Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On May 21, 2006, at 7:54 PM, m m wrote: > >> While >> on topic, the Opterons aren't SMP either, and neither are the >> ht-Xeons... > > I would like t\o hear the rational for the Opterons (presumably the dual > core ones) not being SMP. They have two independent operating cores in > one physical package. Who cares how it is packaged? I would tend to > agree with you on the ht-Xeon in terms of general descriptions. I do > not know as well how the ht-xeon work as I don't use any but it seems to > me that the "SMP" moniker, at least in FreeBSD, relate to how things are > scheduled. > > Btw, Opteron MB with a single dual-core ship get a BIOS report on Boot > of having 2 CPUs... Careful - two cores doesn't mean two caches, and isn't always just 'two cores glued into one package'. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Mon May 22 2006 - 14:34:12 UTC
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