"Yeah, it is the same thing - good marketing."
SMP, Symmetrical Multi Processing, is an architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory.
I assume the software has to be segmented to take advantage of the processing.
Hyperthreading is a process whereby one processor can process, what I assume is this same segmented data simultaneously, in parallel.
>>Intel Demonstrates Breakthrough Processor Design
'Hyper-Threading' to be Integrated in Server Systems in 2002, Move to Desktop Later
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 28, 2001 - Intel Corporation today announced and demonstrated Hyper-Threading technology, a new processor design breakthrough, improving system performance by 30 percent. Intel's simultaneous multithreading design, originally code-named Jackson Technology, allows a single processor to manage data as if it were two processors by handling data instructions in parallel rather than one at a time. Using Hyper-Threading technology, data instructions are "threaded" as parallel streams for processing. |
