Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: frasere@PrimeNet.Com (Eileen Fraser)
Subject: Re: SMP vs. MPP
Organization: Primenet
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 01:39:30 GMT
Message-ID: <frasere.191.00270921@primenet.com>

In article <3dg3l0$7en@wagner.convex.com> "Patrick F. McGehearty" <patrick@convex.convex.com> writes:
>From: "Patrick F. McGehearty" <patrick@convex.convex.com>
>Subject: Re: SMP vs. MPP
>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 01:12:36 GMT

>In article <9412202130.AA18009@idaho.SSD.intel.com>,
>Timothy G. Mattson  <tgm@SSD.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>SMP requires (as the name implies) coherent shared memory of
>>some type.  This typically means that the processors must
>>share some type of memory bus.  Since the bus saturates as
>>more processors are added, SMP systems usually max. out at
>>around 32 nodes.
>>
SMP is, I thought, Symetric Multi Processing. MPP is massively parallel 
processing. 

Eileen


