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asymmetric multiprocessing?

asymmetric multiprocessing?

Posted Dec 31, 2004 5:34 UTC (Fri) by njhurst (guest, #6022)
In reply to: asymmetric multiprocessing? by stuart
Parent article: Kernel Summit: Short topics

You mean like a PC with a video card with GPU, sound card with DSP and a floating point unit? As each of these components becomes more complex it will need to start maintaining its own resources just like an OS.

Asymmetric multiprocessing is useful in a number of areas, and I suspect it will become more so in the future.


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