Re: Mathematica's CPU utilization
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- Subject: [mg59223] Re: Mathematica's CPU utilization
- From: The Phantom <phantom at aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 00:42:54 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 05:31:34 +0000 (UTC), "Chris" <topher at csh.rit.edu> wrote: >You probably have two or more processors or a dual core processor or a >processor with hyperthreading wink, wink, nudge, nudge. It is a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading technology (tm). Is that the same thing as a dual core processor? I guess that would explain it. >Mathematica 5.2 does support using multicore processors, but only for >operations that can be performed in parallel, like dot product, etc. In >theory you could do numerical integration on two different processors >(just have it do two different parts) but I'm sure there are many >technical hurdiles in the way since Mathematica does a lot more than >just numerically integrate the function.