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Multi-Processor Systems: Part 2
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Ace's Hardware have posted part 2 of their multi-processor system comparison. Here's a snip explaining what will be covered:
Welcome to Volume Multi-Processor Systems: Part 2. In the first part, we covered uniprocessor performance, workstation and server sizing, and CPU and system design considerations. For this part, we’ll be looking at the specific architectural implementations of several volume multi-processor systems, including those based around the Pentium III, Pentium 4, Athlon, PowerPC, Itanium, and UltraSPARC architectures. Additionally, we’ll also investigate into many developments in store for 2003, including integrated northbridges/memory controllers and improvements in thread-level parallelism (TLP) through on-chip multiprocessing (CMP) and fine-grained multithreading. The primary goal of this article is to look into the volume workstation and server markets to determine what the implications are for the hardware design and usage, for software and the marketplace in general, concentrating on multi-processor systems with 2-8 CPUs. Though various aspects of system design, performance and cost are looked into, this article is not intended to be a buyers’ guide. Some basic working knowledge of CPU and system design is assumed, with the target audience being computer systems professionals and computer enthusiasts.
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