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A computer
with multiple processors
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Each processor
can perform the same functions
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and share same
main memory and I/O facilities
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(symmetric)
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The OS
schedule processes/threads across all the
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processors
(real parallelisme)
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Existence of
multiple processors is transparent to
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the user.
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Incremental
growth: just add another CPU!
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Robustness: a
single CPU failure does not halt the
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system, only
the performance is reduced.
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