Is there graceful degradation in symmetric multi-processing (SMP) systems?

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Since graceful degradation is a fault-tolerant feature, is it true that in a multi-processor systems with symmetric multi-processing, there will be no graceful degradation?

Update: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault-tolerant_system

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