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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (61177)	10/30/2001 1:56:10 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

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? All valid questions. Is P4 one die or 2 when it's running in SMT mode? I would like to know the cost of that multidie module. EP