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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Scott Long talks about SMPng in FreeBSD

Scott Long, of FreeBSD fame, was interviewed recently over at O’Reilly’s OnLamp.com about SMPng.  SMPng stands for Symmetric MultiProcessing next generation.  SMP in general terms is just the technology that allows a computer to have more than one CPU.

This interview is very technical so the usual “Only geeks need bother to read” notice is in full effect here.

In order for any operating system to support SMP they have to specially design the OS.  This means there are many, many ways in order to provide SMP support.  Every OS does it differently. 

One of the big changes from FreeBSD 4.x to FreeBSD 5.x was to do a major overhaul of SMP support.  This is what SMPng is.  The project to create the future SMP system for FreeBSD.  It’s a major undertaking and has taken a long time for it to mature.

Now get yourself over to OnLamp.com and read the interview.

Oh yea, for those that might want to check out the SMPng project here is the url: http://www.freebsd.org/smp/

Posted by AlanBarber on 02/01/2005 at 08:33 PM
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