Quick SMP Question

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Ok I did a search, but couldn't find anything.

Will SMP work on a dual processor system?

Ive got a dual HT xeon server at work, and I would like to run an smp cli on the two physical cores using vmware and ubuntu, and then run two standards clis on the logical cores in windows.

Would this be possible?

Mark
 
Yeah, they are the 64bit ones, well thats what cpu z tells me anyway.

I was just wondering how I would control what cores smp uses. From what I gather HT won't improve the smp performance at all, so I thought I would put the two logical cores to work by running the standard client on them in windows.
 
Not gonna be able to try it :(

Althought the cpus support 64 bit, the mobo chipset doesn't.

Looks like I'm just gonna have to wait till I get a C2D.
 
Its an MSI motherboard with the intel E7520 chipset.

I've had a look on the MSI website and I can't see anywhere that say that chipset support 64 bit.

I'm still searching my way through the mess that is Intel's website to see if I can find anything.

[EDIT] Seems your right rich. According to intel, that chipset does support EMT64, but I can't find anywhere in the bios to turn it on. I looked for a newer bios version, but i've already got the latest.

[EDIT 2] Nope. Not VT. I tried running Ubuntu directly from the cd, not through vmware, and it still wouldn't run.
 
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Iv'e just found from Intel's mess that they call a website, that the cpu's don't support VT, even though it clearly states on thier website that all xeon processors support VT.
 
Yeah.

I only tried running it nativly to see if it was windows throwing a hissy fit. But when I try and run it, I get the 'Loading Linux Kernel' box and it just sits there at 3%.

Tried to run check cd for defects, but that just freezes. I tried burning another cd but the same happens. The only thing that works is memtest.
 
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