From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 13:36:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grace.speakeasy.org (grace.speakeasy.org [216.254.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6B337B6F2 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@speakeasy.org) Received: from 06-084.009.popsite.net (06-084.009.popsite.net [207.227.232.84]) by grace.speakeasy.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e36KZbg25718; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:35:57 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:28:52 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smp motherboards/concepts In-Reply-To: <20000406121319.E22104@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, 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. 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