Which of the following is an advantage of SMP?

SMP systems typically require a larger initial investment due to the inclusion of multiple processors and specialized motherboards designed to support them.

While applications running on an SMP system might have higher memory requirements, SMP itself is an architectural approach to processor utilization and does not inherently double memory requirements.

Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) systems utilize multiple identical processors that share a common memory, enabling them to execute multiple threads or processes simultaneously, thereby increasing the system's overall processing capacity. This parallel execution of tasks directly results in higher simultaneous thread processing compared to single-processor systems.

Managing multiple processors, maintaining cache coherency, and handling inter-processor communication in an SMP system can introduce some overhead, rather than decreasing it.