| 摘要 |
<p>A symmetric multiprocessor system constructed from industry standard commodity components together with an advanced dual-ported memory controller. The multiprocessor system comprises a processor bus (203) to which up to four Intel Pentium Pro processors (201) are connected, an input/output (I/O) bus (215), a system memory (205), and a dual-ported memory controller (207) connected to the system memory, the dual-ported memory controller having a first port connected to the processor bus to manage processor to system memory transactions and a second port connected to the I/O bus to manage I/O transactions. Furthermore, two such systems can be connected together through a common I/O bus (315), thereby creating an eight-processor Pentium Pro symmetric multiprocessing system.</p> |
