On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:28:46PM -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Having a system with 8, 16, or 32 sockets does not necessarily equal > SMP. Any Opteron based multiprocessor system is actually a NUMA system, > since each Opteron has it's own memory controller on-chip and own bank > of DIMMs.
Note that many people consider SMP to refer to symmetrical OS and not symmetrical memory access, and thus NUMA is a subset of SMP. The Linux kernel, for example, follows this definition... CONFIG_SMP=y is required for CONFIG_NUMA to be set. -- g _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
