[Ti] slightly OT: which apps dual-processor aware?

[Chris Olson]

On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Kynan Shook wrote:

> If you talk to somebody who has a dual-CPU machine, you'd get a better 
> perspective than mine, I imagine: I'm working purely on theory here.  
> If anybody wants to contribute towards my upcoming purchase of a dual 
> G5, I'll report back to them when I get it. ;-)

The only thing I have that doesn't have dual cpu's is my PowerBook.  My 
dual 1.42 PowerMac will mop up the floor pretty badly with an iMac G5.  
If you're looking at a G5, most definitely get one with 2 processors.  
The PowerPC 970 was designed from the ground up for SMP, and standalone 
G5's are not good performers.  It works on the principal of instead of 
increasing the performance of desktop and server systems by using a few 
narrow pipelined, very high clockspeed, high power cpu's, IBM would 
rather see multiple, slower but wider, lower power cpu's ganged 
together via very high-bandwidth connections.  This, incidentally, is 
also the philosophy behind IBM's Cell processor.
--
Chris