SMP support with the scyld package

Daniel Ridge newt at scyld.com
Tue Mar 13 21:26:32 PST 2001


On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Marc Cozzi wrote:

> greetings,
> 
> I'm considering several dual 1GHz, 1GB Intel/Asus systems. Has anyone
> used the Beowulf package from Scyld Computing Corporation with
> SMP systems? Does one have to rebuild the kernel to enable SMP
> support or is it turned on by default? Are there issues with BProc
> and SMP?

Scyld's distribution ships with SMP and UP kernels. No problems with
respect to UP/SMP with bproc. You can also mix-n-match with no ill
effects.

Regards,
	Dan Ridge
	Scyld Computing Corporation 





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