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'''Symmetric Multiprocessing''' (or '''SMP''') is one method of having multiple processors in one computer system. In an SMP system (as opposed to a [[NUMA]] system) all logical cores are able to see the entire memory for the system. Note that SMP and NUMA are not mutually exclusive however; as [[User:Brendan|Brendan]] has pointed out on the forums, Intel's [[IA32_Architecture_Family#Core_i7_Series|Core i7]] implements both SMP and NUMA, as well as hyper-threading.
==Initialisation of an old SMP system==
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