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Using Multiple Processors in a Workstation

Is anyone aware of how I can run WCG on BOTH processors of a dual processor AMD workstation? Currently it seems to use only one.

I have a dual-processor workstation (do NOT confuse this with HyperThreading!) and I would like to run WCG on BOTH processors. Windows recognizes both processors and WCG appears to use only one of them. (I've tracked it with perfmon, and one CPU is saturated while the other is idle.)

Any suggestions will be appreciated, and suggestions sent directly to dmpase@yahoo.com will be appreciated first.

Thank you,

-- Doug

[Mar 26, 2005 2:08:05 AM]

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Re: Using Multiple Processors in a Workstation

Currently, the only way to use all the processors of a multiprocessor system is by setting up each processor as a virtual machine, using special software such as VMware. The WCG intends to develop a client for Linux X86 this year, then probably for Mac OS X. It seems likely that these agents will be SMP-enabled. If so, there might eventually be a port to Windows. But that is for the post-2005 era.

Lawrence

[Mar 26, 2005 5:35:16 AM]

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Re: Using Multiple Processors in a Workstation

Thank you for your response. Linux is my preferred OS, so I'll look forward to seeing that when it comes. (I let Windows soak up my idle cycles because that's where WCG runs.)

Thanks!

-- Doug

[Mar 26, 2005 10:21:08 AM]

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Re: Using Multiple Processors in a Workstation

Check this Slashdot article (the one that brought at least 3000 Slashdot users to WCG):
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...4&tid=136&tid=137
especially the following link:
http://blakenyc77.tripod.com/udtweaker.html

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[Mar 28, 2005 10:39:31 AM]

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Re: Using Multiple Processors in a Workstation

Rick Alther explains why UD Tweaker should not be used here; http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=767#6646

Now that multi-cores are going to come out, I expect that it will finally be worth some programming time to implement some SMP support. Not immediately though, so we will just have to wait.

Lawrence

[Mar 28, 2005 5:39:54 PM]

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