symmetric multiprocessing

Apple seems to be embracing symmetric multiprocessing on its high-end machines.

Using symmetric multiprocessing, the processing usage is evenly distributed among all available processors.

Symmetric multiprocessing is supported if a multi-core processor is used.

It also provides kernel-based threads and supports symmetric multiprocessing.

Erlang has supported symmetric multiprocessing since release R11B of May 2006.

Linux, and therefore Debian, supports the use of multiple processors in a system (symmetric multiprocessing).

This latter feature was added to handle hardware interrupts correctly, and to improve support for symmetric multiprocessing.

The chip was designed to suit a wide variety applications and had support for external L2 cache and symmetric multiprocessing.

This approach lies between symmetric multiprocessing and asymmetric multiprocessing.

Embedded.com has a nice piece explaining the basic interworkings of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).

This has already yielded separate, complementary standards for symmetric multiprocessing, namely OpenMP.

TSS/360 was one of the first implementations of tightly-coupled symmetric multiprocessing.

Modern operating systems generally include detailed mechanisms for prioritizing processes, while symmetric multiprocessing has introduced new complexities and capabilities.

Irix uses the firm's own file system, supports symmetric multiprocessing and multi-threading now, but will not support full 64-bit addressing until the beginning of next year.

Support for symmetric multiprocessing and C2 security will be addressed in a 'major new release of OSF/1' next year.

Heap layout has been modified to provide higher performance on 64-bit and Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems.

Windows 9x has no native support for hyper-threading, Data Execution Prevention, symmetric multiprocessing or multi-core processors.

Solaris has a reputation for being well-suited to symmetric multiprocessing, supporting a large number of CPUs.

In SMP(symmetric multiprocessing) systems, processor affinity is considered to increase overall system performance, even if it may cause a process itself to run more slowly.

With the new Slot 1, Intel added support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).

HelenOS is a microkernel operating system, which supports multitasking, memory management, inter-process communication and symmetric multiprocessing.

Based on the award winning Power4 design, this processor is an 8-way superscalar design that fully supports Symmetric MultiProcessing.

Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)

It supported 1:1 kernel threads, symmetric multiprocessing, fibre channel, and NFS PV3.

Over its 50 year history it has had many firsts in a commercial implementation, including virtual memory, symmetric multiprocessing, and a high-level job control language (WFL).