From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 11:40:15 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 98ABC37BFE8 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:40:12 -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 e36Idbg27564 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:39:57 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:32:53 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: smp motherboards/concepts 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 I know FreeBSD supports multiple processors, but how many? What motherboard(s) support more than two, for example using a pentium pro? 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message