[Shootout-list] Yes! Re: Dual CPU machine?

[Shae Matijs Erisson]

Greg Buchholz <sleepingsquirrel@yahoo.com> writes:

>     This is mostly just talking off the top of my head, but I wonder if there
> are enough people out there who would like to see a multiprocessor version of
> the shootout.  If there were 10 or so people interested in putting up $20 we
> might be able to snag a dual 300-500MHz system off of ebay.  Would such a
> slow machine still make it worthwhile?  Of course, this ignores the details
> like where it would reside, who would maintain it, etc.

My desktop is a two cpu 1544MHz Athlon MP, so I'm very interested.

With the sudden upsurge of multi-core CPUs, I think lots of people will soon be
interested in this.  Can multiple CPUs can be simulated with User Mode Linux or
something similar?

For me, the most interesting benchmark would be "scaling". 
It would test to see how well a benchmark implementation scales from one cpu up
to thirty two cpus.
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