[G4] OS X SMP

[Don Fuller]

On Feb 8, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Jonathan Armstrong wrote:

>
> On Feb 8, 2004, at 10:04 AM, sr ferenczy wrote:
>
>>> Does the VT cluster run Mac OS X -- and is it really relevant to our 
>>> issue?
>>>
>>> f
>>
>> yes it does, and yes, i believe it is highly relevant. it is the 
>> largest working example of SMP we have on the macintosh, and i 
>> believe it shows how well the OS handles SMP.
>
> The VT cluster is not an SMP machine, and OS X isn't directly 
> responsible for it's process scheduling.
>
> It is a relevant case for parallelism in general, and the Apple 
> hardware has some advantageous properties that are being exploited in 
> this system, but in this case the OS has less to do with performance 
> than you might think.
>
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