Assignment 2: Multiprocessing Due Week 4 and worth 90 points Increasing the numb
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Assignment 2: Multiprocessing
Due Week 4 and worth 90 points
Increasing the number of CPUs in a computer system tends to increase system performance. There are different types of multiprocessor architectures available today. These include the master-slave multiprocessing (MSMP) architecture and symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) architecture.
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the molecules of the SMP are limited from seeking a higher entropy state. The term “activation,†as used herein, refers to enabling recovery in an SMP through providing activation stimuli to the SMP, and thereby inducing the molecules to seek a higher entropy configuration. Depending on the constraints applied to the SMP material, recovery caused by activation can include shape change and/or generation of forces against a constraint. For example, even though activation may enable a change in molecular configuration (and thereby a shape change), that shape change may be inhibited by the application of external constraints. In accordance with the present disclosure, methods and apparatus have been developed whereby mechanical stimuli may be used as activating stimuli for an SMP. Mechanical stimuli may be referred to as a force and/or a constraint applied to the SMP material. For different activation stimuli, such as temperature and/or trigger forces, as described further herein, different “activation rates.