SMP stands for Symmetric Multi-Processing.

This includes a multiprocessor computer hardware architecture in which two or more processors are connected to a single shared main memory and controlled by a single operating system. The most common multiprocessor systems today use the SMP architecture. In the case of multi-core processors, the SMP architecture is applied to the cores and treats them as separate processors.

SMP systems allow any processor to run on any task regardless of where the data for that task resides in memory, provided that each task in the system is run on two or more processors simultaneously.

With proper operating system support, SMP systems can easily distribute tasks among processors to balance workload efficiently.