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Subject: Re: Crafty and NUMA

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 12:04:09 09/03/03

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On September 03, 2003 at 15:00:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>The SMP box will _always_ be faster for any application that shares _anything_
>at all.  Because sharing will _always_ be faster on the SMP box, period.
>
>I don't know how it can be explained any simpler than that.

Meh. This applies to Crays, apparently. It doesn't apply to real
systems since none I ever worked with seemed to have a direct
connection to memory. Are you saying SMP Intel boxes aren't really SMP?

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GCP



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