Dual Core / Dual Processor AMD

[Peter Clutton]

Hi, I'm about to purchase a new workstatioin just for ubuntu and had a
question about smp support and benefits. Would appreciate any tips or
pointers to other information.

If i purchase a dual core opteron or two single core opterons and
install the smp kernel, will i be getting the full benifits of
multitasking, as in, it doesn't require multithreaded applications to
get anything out of it?

Is the support as stable as running ubuntu on single core/processor,
which i have found very stable? For instance is it at the stage of 64
bit support, where there are a few issues and not all software is
supported etc.

One final question, can i use smp with the two cores running 32bit smp
kernel, even though the opteron is 64 bit? I dont care about the the
advatntages of 64 bit, they would not affect anything i do.

If all is totally good, I would pay for the dual core/processor,
otherwise will pay for the best single core i can get. Thanks in
advance