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Re: Enable multicore calculation ?

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• Subject: [mg88182] Re: [mg88128] Enable multicore calculation ?
• From: George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com>
• Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:59:57 -0400 (EDT)
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You need to get the personal grid edition to make use of all the cores.

I had the same problem with my 4 core G5 Mac Pro (since retired).

I believe that Mathematica uses one core for the front end and one for  
the kernel by default. On a two core system, or even a 4 course  
system, that is usually sufficient, since one usually has other  
processes running. However, with an 8 core system, you should look  
into the personal grid edition to maximize throughput.

george


On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:40 AM, guerom00 wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm running Mathematica 6.0.2 on a MacPro with 8 cores. I've noticed
> that the kernel only uses 1 core=85 Is it possible to enable multicore
> calculations ?
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>

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