Recentralizing Server Sprawl Through VMware: From Best Strategies to Cost Savings
White Papers Giga estimates that more than 30 percent of all midrange (up to four-way) and high-end Intel server (eight-way and beyond) Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP)-based server platforms are being shipped for a variety of systems consolidation projects.
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
An Assessment of Leadership Performance With POWER6 Processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
White Papers The IBM System p 570 with POWER6 processors provides leadership performance and demonstrates excellent scalability moving from one node to four nodes in this environment while providing linear SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) scaling and growth for...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Quelle GmbH Optimizes Analytical and Operative Customer Relationship Management Strategies
White Papers Quelle replaced its Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) architecture with Oracle Real Application Clusters, achieving higher performance and significant cost savings. As Quelle GmbH continued to grow, the challenge for Quelle's database management team...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
Breaking New Ground: The Evolution of Linux Clustering
White Papers Clusters, derived from the pioneering Beowulf concept, provide a cost-effective alternative to proprietary supercomputers and Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) systems. Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters are an example of innovation...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Sun SPARC Enterprise Server Family Architecture Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power
White Papers With Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) scalability from one to 64 processors, memory subsystems as large as 2 TB, and high-throughput I/O architectures, Sun SPARC Enterprise servers easily perform the heavy lifting required by consolidated workloads.
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Unix forum cheers Linux
News That release will feature a true 64-bit kernel, 32-bit and 64-bit Unix application programming interfaces (APIs) and "targeted" 32-bit UnixWare and AIX 4.3.2 application compatibility, eight-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) on IA-64 support, 64...
[August 23, 1999, 12:15]
SCO's Linux licence will create backlash
News According to SCO, Linux kernel 2.4 includes code that aids symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) scaling. Weiss said that enterprises that are only using Linux for simple tasks -- such as basic Web serving or as a firewall -- will not require the latest...
[July 25, 2003, 14:08]
OpenBSD 3.6 tackles SMP
News The developers behind OpenBSD, the secure Unix-like operating system, are due to release version 3.6 on 1 November, which for the first time includes symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support. Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD...
[October 29, 2004, 12:24]
Transmeta loses server deal to Intel
News He noted that the Intel chips will allow future Virgo products to offer symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities. Crusoe does not have multiprocessing capabilities, and Transmeta says it has no plans to produce a multiprocessing chipset.
[August 2, 2001, 14:37]
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News The software supports symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP). Wind River has released a hypervisor for embedded systems, a key part of its effort to enable multiple operating systems to run on single or multicore...
[June 18, 2009, 12:43]
Virtualisation boost from VMware
News And as expected, the new ESX will permit use of the computing power of four-processor servers, a feature called four-way Virtual SMP (symmetric multiprocessing). Today's ESX permits only two-processor virtual SMP, still a step ahead of Microsoft's...
[October 18, 2005, 10:00]
Frye: Curing corporate Linux phobia
News And for some time, Linux is not going to be capable of doing those very high-end, large SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) functions. We ask certain people to work to improve SMP scalability, or improve network security, or improve the standards.
[December 5, 2002, 7:29]
US Report: HP describes plans for first IA-64 chip set
News There will be a few versions of the chip set, one of which will enable SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems scaleable to hundreds of processors. At a gathering at its Labs in California, the disclosure was made just outside the original offices...
[October 13, 1998, 17:27]
Virtual unrealities exposed
News It's only over the past few months, however, that virtualisation has really taken off on the x86 world, due to a few different factors — server replacement cycles coming around, more mature management tools for virtualised servers, support for a...
[July 17, 2006, 15:00]
Compaq teams with Corollary for 8-CPU servers
News The pair have agreed to share technology in order to match Corollary's Profusion multiprocessing architecture with Compaq's I/O technology to boost next-generation Intel 'Deschutes' processors and the Slot 2 architecture.
[October 14, 1997, 11:33]
