Hyperthreading in P4 Xeon (question)

Wed Apr 3 00:35:03 PST 2002

There is a Whitepaper on the Xeon Processor concerning Hyperthreading
over at the intel site

http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/products/server/processor/xeon/wp020901_s
um.htm

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Sent: Wednesday, 3 April 2002 5:32 PM
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Subject: Hyperthreading in P4 Xeon (question)

What is the realistic effect of "hyperthreading" in P4 Xeon?  I'm not
versed in the latest CPU trends.  Does it mean that dual-P4Xeon will
behave like 4-way SMP?

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
8 CPU cluster, NAS, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Tin
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