> From: André Warnier [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> From: Sam Hokin [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> The server that's being a problem is a Dell PowerEdge
> >> 1950, quad dual core.
> Since we have 4 processors here (do we, really? I am not so familiar
> with the multi-core architecture), can each of these processors be
> running a thread of these apps/classes, where on a single processor
> there would be only one thread running ?
Quad dual-core*. That's 4 silicon dies, each with two copies of "the core of"
a CPU. So (4 * 2) = 8 separate instruction execution units, 8 program
counters, executing up to 8 instruction streams in parallel.
The cores on one die share some infrastructure like cache and memory access,
but the interesting feature here is that this machine can run 8 threads
concurrently.
- Peter
* Says the original poster. Looking at the Dell site, I reckon it's actually
dual quad-core - so two dies, 4 cores per die. Still 8 concurrent threads,
though.
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