[Nottingham] Multi-processor machines

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Mon Feb 14 19:05:53 GMT 2005


Mike Cardwell wrote:
[...]
> The new box will have a lot more Ram than the current box. It only needs 
> to have enough ram to do two jobs at any one time anyway seeing as there 
> is no speed advantage of each cpu doing more than one job at any time.
[...]

Having the next job already loaded and queued will save you the time 
taken to transfer the data to/from that machine.

Good luck,
Martin

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