Greetings, Does JUNOS on Intel platform supports SMP (symmetrical multi processing)?
Regards On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:13:41AM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > Not "that" poor, it's a 1.2GHz PowerPC, which is roughly the performance > > of a p4 3GHz. I haven't looked at it in detail yet, but I'd say odds are > > good its the exact same integrated CPU/RE that is used on the EX8200 RE > > (which is also the same cpu that is used on the original MX DPCs). On > > the EX RE the ram and flash are not expandable, so you may be SOL there. > > Ok I have some details... The EX8200 RE is a Freescale e500v2 MPC8548 > 1.2GHz single core cpu, the MX80 RE uses an MPC8572 1.3GHz which is a > dual core cpu. Note that this has no relationship to the old MX base > level RE-1300, which was an Intel Celeron 1.3GHz. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerQUICC#PowerQUICC_III > > It looks like they're only using a single core currently, but color me > hopeful that they'll enable the second core in a future software release > (my guess is they don't have their ppc code fully supported or tested > for SMP yet). When 10.2 came out I remember seeing a mention somewhere > in the release notes about support for upcoming dual and quad core RE's > (classic Intel it looked like), but I can't seem to find the reference > now, so maybe they removed it. :) > > -- > Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
