SMP systems have at least 2 CPU. In an SMP system, each processor is equally capable and responsible for managing the flow of work through the system. Initially, the goal was to make SMP systems appear to programmers to be exactly the same as single processor, multiprogramming systems. However, engineers found that system performance could be increased by someplace in the range of 10-20% by executing some instructions out of order and requiring programmers to deal with the increased complexity. SMP optimizations of Morgan M-JPEG codec V3 increase performance in the range of 50-90% (Average 75%).
SMP capable CPU
Pentium
II
Celeron 300 to 533 (a.k.a.
Celeron I, unoffical, requires a specific motherboard or adapter)
AMD :
Opteron
Athlon
MP
Athlon XP (unofficial)
Duron 1Ghz and above with Morgan core (unofficial)
SMP capable Windows versions : Windows NT/2000/2003 Server/XP