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To: Elmer who wrote (61172)10/30/2001 1:48:57 PM
From: Gopher BrokeRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
What is unclear to me is if this should be considered 1 cpu or 2. They come 2 cpus per module so I don't see how it can be 1.

I think you are indirectly preparing the ground for your arguments against SledgeHammer :^)

Seriously, the dividing line between UP and MP will have to blur, so the measurements will eventually become one of points/$. (Already what is done for the big system spec benchmarks).

Otherwise where do you draw the line? Are two CPUs on a chip with a shared FSB still two processors? What if that sharing extends into the caching? Or into the fetching/decoding? Should a system just with multiple ALUs/FPUs be considered MP? What about SMT - the OS thinks it is two processors?
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