Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 03:56:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org> Subject: Re: smp motherboards/concepts Message-ID: <XFMail.000407035607.lnb@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000406121319.E22104@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Hi, How well will snp handle an 8way system? Lnb On 06-Apr-00 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. > > -- > -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
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