The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems. Among the improvements are an ...

Halfway through my freshman year of college I put together a dual pII 400 machine with 256 meg of ram and some other junk. For the following 3.5 years the only substantial upgrade to the machine was ...

Of the Free alternatives, Linux with a 2.4 series kernel is the best. OpenBSD has no working SMP, FreeBSD lacks the fine-grained locking that's needed for good performance and I think (someone please ...

The first installment of this series was an overview of memory barriers, why they are needed in SMP kernels and how the Linux kernel handles them [August 2005]. This installment gives an overview of ...

LONDON — The Leon 3 licensible Sparc processor, developed by Gaisler Research AB (Gothenberg, Sweden) has symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support, in the form of a port of the Linux 2.6 operating ...

With the advent of multithreaded/multicore CPUs, even embedded real-time applications are starting to run on SMP systems—for example, both the Xbox 360 and PS/3 are multithreaded, and there even have ...

Albuquerque, N.M. — The Palomar line of PMC modules has been expanded with the release of the 1000 DFX, which comes equipped with a Linux symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) software support package. This ...

The original poster asked about using Hyper-V’s Linux Integration Service (LIS) with an SMP server. If you’re using Hyper-V and Linux, you probably already know that Microsoft limits you to a single ...