Re: SMP vs. Specialized chipsets WAS: Re: I have information/driver ...

Ralf Baechle (ralfb@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com)
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 07:34:18 -0700


On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:51:39PM -0700, David Lang wrote:

> Take a look at the book "in search of clusters" it goes into a lot of
> detail on everything that is needed to run parallel systems, both SMP and
> cluster setups. It boils down to the fact that you can get better
> performance from the existing types of chips then you could get from
> creating an on-chip SMP.

Search for a papaer ``A case for a single chip SMP'' or similar out there,
it researches the fact based on the PowerPC architecture.

Ralf

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