Chapter Nine Multiprocessor Virtualization
Many systems today, particularly servers and high-end desktop systems, contain multiple processors. Server systems typically incorporate many processors that share large amounts of memory and I/O devices. Web servers manage huge databases and need to service a multitude of simultaneous requests coming from large numbers of network ports. Computational servers used for large scientific calculations have thousands of processors connected to terabytes of memory and petabytes of disk capacity. Moreover, as levels of integration continue to increase, multiprocessor architectures will soon find their way into laptops and inexpensive desktop systems.
The increasing availability of multiprocessor systems ...
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