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What the IT Manager Should Know
Windows
2000® Advanced Server®
1.
SMP & Advanced Management Memory
Advanced
Server enables software to use multiprocessor
servers, by as much as eight-way symmetric multiprocessing
(SMP). Improvements in the implementation of the
SMP code allow for improved scaling linearity,
making Advanced Server an even more powerful platform
for business-critical applications, databases,
and Web services. Existing Windows NT®
4.0 and Enterprise Edition servers with
up to eight-way SMP can install this product.
Advanced
Server also supports up to 8 GB of memory when
used with processors supporting Intel’s Physical
Address Extensions (PAE). Combined with support
for eight-way SMP, this enhanced memory support
ensures that memory- and processor-intensive applications
can be run on the operating system.
These
capabilities come at a very attractive price.
According to the Transaction
Processing Performance Council,
the Windows 2000 Server family provides customers
with comparable performance for less than half
the cost of the most scalable UNIX-based system.
Furthermore, the Windows 2000 Server family provides
customers with additional room to grow while maintaining
a comparable price-to-performance ratio.
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