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From: Christopher Browne
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:04

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Oops! William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> Also, dual-motherboard is hard to come by and is expensive.  

This is the bigger problem with SMP.  SMP requires more complex
hardware than single CPU systems, and thus costs more.  The relative
rarity of SMP systems compounds the cost.

It makes it worth thinking of whether a Beowulf cluster would be
effective... 
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Dual processors ?
Date: 5 Jan 2003 01:04:10 GMT
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