2006-08-28 06:50:02 · 7 answers · asked by rad sh 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Yes, that is the logic behind dual processor technology. The difficulty with faster single processors is the heat and energy consumption. On most applications, one will not be able to tell the difference.
2006-08-28 06:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by david42 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, only if the task at hand has parallelism. Think about it...can 9 women make a baby in 1 month? No! So if the instructions or tasks can be made more and more parallel then multiple processors will be faster. However, if a task is very serial or dependant in nature, multiple processors don't add that much value.
2006-08-28 07:31:19 · answer #2 · answered by AshDaMan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bottom line to your question is YES! But there are a host of other issues that must be addressed for the system to run:
Mother board, RAM, Power Supply, Hard Drive and graphics.
No server, supporting industry, utilizes a single core system.
They use dual or quad core systems. Too, software code has to be written to take advantage of two or more processors.
Until recently, the majority of non industry oriented software was not written for dual or quad core processing. But now that is rapidly changing!
Too, the instruction length is going from 32 bits of information to 64 bits of information. So, with two cores reading 64 bits of information per clock cycle, instead of one processor reading 32 bits of information, there is no question about speed/performance.
By the end of next year, it will be difficult to find a single core system on the market.
2006-08-28 13:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Logically yes but practically you should not use a server with two or three processor to play high graphics game or dual tasking. It is a sheer waste of money. In our regular works we don't need so much power hungry machines to do the miniscule works. It is the clever marketting techniques of companies like Intel to believe us we do need dual core to do more. Next year it will be quad core to do much more.
2006-08-28 16:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by Prosenjit B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on what you are running. Higher end graphics applications such as Photoshop are designed to run with multiple processors, but many are not. In general, server software, such as databases, web servers are, while user applications are not. If you frequenty run many programs at the same time it might help, but if you are just surfing the net, you'd probably benifit more by spending the money on added memory
2006-08-28 07:09:19 · answer #5 · answered by Stanley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google for clusters. Linux has cluster software, and you can run dozens or hundreds of computers on the same task, and yes, the task is executed much faster.
2006-08-28 07:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, the speed of computer doesn't depends on number of processor completely. it mainly depends on the RAM/ main memory that is used, in actual we will not able to use the processor 100% at a single time, the multiple processor can increase the parallelism
2006-08-28 06:57:42 · answer #7 · answered by Aseem M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋