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Subject: Re: Presentation PDF link.

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 00:48:19 04/25/02

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On April 24, 2002 at 20:29:36, Dan Andersson wrote:

>You are probably mixing things up. There are different types of multi
>processing. SMP is Symmetrical Multi Processing. There the memory is shared and
>accessed the same for each processor. NUMA is Non Uniform Memory Access. Where
>memory is mor tightly bound to individual processors. That means that some multi
>processor code with SMP as a hidden assumption can be slower.

Accessing memory via another CPU shouldn't be any slower than accessing memory
via a northbridge.

-Tom



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