hello, sorry this is kinda off topic, but this mailing list has tons of smart people who's opinions i can benefit from.
i decided that i want a dual cpu system. i'm kinda interested in parallel/distributed programming. my friends have donated their old computers and i now have a 5 node linux cluster (just old cheap 500 mhz p3's). thats fun to play around with for distributed stuffs, but now i want a dual cpu system to play around with shared memory parallel programming. so now down to the question. whats the difference between a dual athlon xp system and a dual athlon mp system besides a >huge< price difference? the dual mp motherboards are twice as expensive...as are the athlon mp processors. again, i'm not doing any major server stuff that requires top of the line performance. i just want something to play around with (that will be stable of course)...and maybe something i can encode a divx on while at the same time compiling kde...;) also, how supported is this kinda stuff in the linux kernel in redhat 8.0? does xp vs. mp make a difference to the linux kernel? thanks for the info, -- christopher -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
