Siddharth Srivastav wrote:
>
> hi all,
> I send this mail with highest anticipation of getting valuable
> guidance and support .
> We are a group working of real time broadcast of MPEG2 , for which
> we were using a cluster of machines till now for reducing the encoder
> load. Recently, bacause of failure in meeting the Real time constraints at
> the demanded resolution, we decided to shift to Multiprocessor machine.
> Since all of us here are new to this new configuration, could you people
> please guide us to some sites where we can get a detailed description of
> the various SMP's and linux OS related issues.
http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-faq/
> Further i would like to know if our existing code can be directly
> ported on to the SMP. If not, how much of Progammer interference is
> required to make existing codes run on SMPs
To run, no modifications are needed. To take full advantage, depends.
If you are using threaded code or several processes ( > 1), again
no modifications are needed. The threads/processes get evenly distributed
by the processors.
If it is a single process than it will only run on one and just one
processor at a time.
Rui Sousa
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