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IBM-AUSTRIA - PC-HW-Support 30 Aug 1999 |
Symmetric Multiprocessors/Multiprocessing (Server 330)
Symmetric Multiprocessors/Multiprocessing
The PC Server 330 Type 8640 has a second upgradable processor
socket on the processor board to support Symmetric
Multiprocessors/Multiprocessing (SMP). The SMP capability
extends processing performance by allowing tasks to be dispatched
to the next available processor rather then being queued until
the busy processor has completed its task.
The SMP capability
also provides a level of high availability in that some
operating systems run in a uni-processor mode
if one of the processors should experience a failure. This function
will allow the LAN to continue operation so that service can
be scheduled at a non-critical time.
NOTE:
If the optional processor is installed, the optional processor
is the boot processor.
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