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Special Forums Hardware Dual CPU motherboards Post 302830359 by Corona688 on Monday 8th of July 2013 02:45:51 PM
Old 07-08-2013
Boards with multiple CPU's happened first, I remember dealing with two-CPU Pentium III boards... Multiple-core CPU's are just an enhancement of this older idea. The BIOS for a multiple-CPU board naturally supports multiple CPU's. Intel's single-core "Hyperthreading" CPU also acted like multiple CPU's, though in reality they weren't quite.

Software and hardware-wise, AMD built a solid standard for this when they introduced 64-bit x86 processors. They were designed to scale much farther. Either/or should be no problem for a modern OS.

16 cores competing for memory at once would be quite a logjam! The advantage of multiple CPU chips, rather than multiple cores in one chip, is that each CPU can have its own data bus. Some AMD chips even have their own built in memory controllers, making multiple sets of wholly-independent RAM possible(joined by Hypertransport when necessary). CPU's hold each other up less while working.

This takes more hardware and more complex hardware, so costs more. Just ramping up RAM speed higher and higher is an alternate solution.

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CPUSET(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 CPUSET(3)

NAME
cpuset_create, cpuset_destroy, cpuset_zero, cpuset_set, cpuset_clr, cpuset_isset, cpuset_size -- dynamic CPU sets SYNOPSIS
#include <sched.h> cpuset_t * cpuset_create(void); void cpuset_destroy(cpuset_t *set); void cpuset_zero(cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_set(cpuid_t cpu, cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_clr(cpuid_t cpu, cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_isset(cpuid_t cpu, const cpuset_t *set); size_t cpuset_size(const cpuset_t *set); DESCRIPTION
This section describes the functions used to create, set, use and destroy the dynamic CPU sets. This API can be used with the POSIX threads, see pthread(3) and affinity(3). The ID of the primary CPU in the system is 0. FUNCTIONS
cpuset_create() Allocates and initializes a clean CPU-set. Returns the pointer to the CPU-set, or NULL on failure. cpuset_destroy(set) Destroy the CPU-set specified by set. cpuset_zero(set) Makes the CPU-set specified by set clean, that is, memory is initialized to zero bytes, and none of the CPUs set. cpuset_set(cpu, set) Sets the CPU specified by cpu in set. Returns zero on success, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_clr(cpu, set) Clears the CPU specified by cpu in the CPU-set set. Returns zero on success, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_isset(cpu, set) Checks if CPU specified by cpu is set in the CPU-set set. Returns the positive number if set, zero if not set, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_size(set) Returns the size in bytes of CPU-set specified by set. SEE ALSO
affinity(3), pset(3), sched(3), schedctl(8), kcpuset(9) HISTORY
The dynamic CPU sets appeared in NetBSD 5.0. BSD
November 2, 2011 BSD
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