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    4-Way Server

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    A 4-way server provides fast performance and scalability by supporting multiple CPUs. In this case it would support four processors. The multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously. The computer architecture used in 4-way servers is called SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing).

    See also SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing).

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