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Intel Hyperthreading In Reality
A reader writes: "Looks like GamePC has got the first look at Intel's new Xeon processor, which has the new super-fantastico Hyperthreading technology, which tricks your OS into thinking one CPU is two CPUs, two CPUs is four. Looks neat in theory, benchies included."
Hyperthreading, the feature that can theoretically turn your 2 physical CPU's into 4 virtual CPU's
... *zwusch* :)
This is quite kewl, i could turn my 2 cpus to 4, then to 8, 16, 32
I like magic stuff like that
Life sucks.
Only support a max 2 processors? Does this mean that anyone who wants more than 1 real processor has to run the Server edition of one or the other? And... what about per-cpu liscences? If I wanted to run my dual-Xeon mobo before, I only needed a liscense for 2 cpus...
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Here's what the article says:
In our case, since we ran with dual Xeon processors (each with hyperthreading capabilities), the OS and software see this as four physical CPUs, even though there are only two physical CPUs running. As you can see by the device and task managers in Windows XP, the OS sees our system with four physical CPU's. Eeven though Windows 2000 and Windows XP only officially support two CPU's, both operating systems were able to run properly with the Hyperthreaded CPU's. This means you don't have to upgrade to a 4-processor OS like Windows 2000 server to take advantage of this technology.
Life sucks.
Looks like GamePC's website isn't running one of these babies yet.
:(
Slashdotted already.