Woh... First of all, your network annalogy is completely and utterly incorrect.. Hubs replicate the raw binary electrical signal and throw it out to all the ports at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nein
Switches makes a decission as to which port it should forward a packet to based on the packets destination based on a MAC table the switch builds as it receives and sends traffic. This is why Switches are far better at passing packets around a network.
Secondly, I'm no brainwashed nieve idiot.. DMP has been used for a longggg time with mainframes and supercomputers, AMD isn't the first to use it, and the scale they do it on is largely irrelivent since their design is almost identical to that of SMP without Northbridge intervention between their processors.. All AMD has really done is slap a memory controller onto their CPU's, and renamed the FSB to Hypertransport Bus.. If Opterons were so amazing then why do high capacity servers use SPARC and Xeons?.. seriously get real fanboy.
Real DMP extends it scope way out to fibre links and clustering. Distrubting processing on a different level to software applications.
I also want to add that you've in no way contributed to the ongoing problem of software developers failing to utilise CPU features and techniques that can vastly improve the performance of their software and avoid us having to aquire a new PC every 2 years or so. In short you've completely went off topic and out of scope.