It’s often tempting to make one processor handle the entire system load. But sometimes adding a second processor is the best option.

Since then, however, PowerLogix hasn’t shipped any multiprocessor upgrades. The company is still working on multiprocessor upgrade cards, says Director of Marketing Robin Sharp-Howdershelt.

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Multiprocessor RTOSs may even include utilities to configure customized interprocessor-communication-management engines, because managing such communication is unique to each design implementation.

In multiprocessor designs, abstracted design tools allow you to trade performance for ease of design. Optimization is a process of determining which abstractions bring in the most inefficiencies and ...

Many authors (myself included at one point) advocate the double-checked locking idiom to access a Singleton object in an intuitively thread-safe way. Unfortunately, for counterintuitive reasons ...

Xen, software that lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, will become significantly more powerful with an upcoming version that introduces multiprocessor support. Xen is a ...

On the other hand, a variety of interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms for operating systems exists to support multiprocessor environments.

The final multiprocessor issue here is fabric manager fail-over, dealt with in a well-defined and time-tested manner. Since each subsystem sits behind a bridge, each processor node can be either ...

It didn’t produce another multiprocessor Mac until 2000, when CEO Steve Jobs unveiled two models– the Power Mac G4/450 Dual Processor and the Power Mac G4/500 Dual Processor –at Macworld ...

A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as the systems become widespread in the industry.

This paper describes the development of a Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) with a novel interconnect architecture and an enhanced compiler support for programmability. Our MPSoC programming ...