It doesn't seam as fast using 1 cpu it takes 22 seconds to get .1 percent at 99 percent usage using the grid agent with one cpu takes about 35 seconds to get .1 percent using the bionic agent believe that using 99 or 100 that what it says in my task manager atleast. Why is the grid agent more effieceint with 1 cpu is their anyway i can make the bionic agent faster?

Is there a way I can set the cpu usuage with the Bionic agent? If so how do I do that.

welcome hiate,

log into "my grid"
click "device manager"
"device profiles"
under "advanced options" you will see the box for "on mulitprocessors".......

change it there. if you have a single amd dualcore, change it to 2, a dual dualcore to 4. if an intel with hyperthreading, change it to 2 to take advantage of the slight increase in speed. a dual xeon for example goes to 4. hth

To be clear:

1) UD can use only 1 thread.

2) BOINC can use as many threads as you have. Just make sure the setting is at least as high as your highest machine. For example, I have a dual chip, Xeon "Dempsey" machine. Dempseys are dual core with HyperThreading. That means the OS sees 8 CPUs (threads). So I make sure my device manager setting is 8 for max number of CPUs.

3) BOINC cannot apply multiple threads to work on a single Work Unit (nothing can as far as I know). Instead, BOINC will assign a separate WU to each thread, and run them simultaneously. So using my machine from #2 as an example, I don't run 1 WU 8 times as fast. Instead I run 8 WUs at normal speed in parallel.

Clear as mud?