Your PC can only analyze more than one task at any one time if it is a multicore machine.

Go into My Grid, Device Manager, Device Profiles.

In the relevant profile, you will see in advance options, Processor Usage. Change the multiprocessor options. Then Save. And ask your PC to update.


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Patrick

Thank you both for your input.

As with many WCG members, I've collected a few PCs (rejects) from friends and am attempting to dedicate them solely to process WCG tasks.

One machine (Intel Pentium III Processor) running Win XP on a clean 350 gig HD with 1 gig RAM is only running one task.

So...it's my understanding that I cannot process more than 1 task on this machine, regardless of HD or RAM. One processor...one task.

HD and RAM allow one to do projects with higher requirements but it is indeed the processor that matters.

My intel processor has four cores and can do eight wcg or bionic tasks at one time. Even your reject pc helps doing one task at a time. Just have it do one project with fast processing of tasks such as Help Conquer Cancer since most workunits for that project can take 2 hours to do. You can have multiple pcs on your account. Just go to the device manager and you can create custom profiles for each pc including which projects they run and what the settings are for each pc.

That having been said, however...

You can set an option

<ncpus>N</ncpus>

which can simulate multi-CPUs...

Naturally, this doesn't actually increase CPU capacity, but it appears to make a P3/P4 process more than one task 'simultaneously.'

Naturally, the CPU's power is being divided among the tasks, so each will simply take twice as long (if you set NCPUS=2) - in fact, it'll take even longer because the switching will itself take time, so it REDUCES productivity overall.

Nevertheless, it can be done...