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Message 51415 - Posted: 21 Nov 2013, 15:18:43 UTC

Personally, I would like to know if you use all cpus (08) to process a single processing unit??


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Message 51416 - Posted: 21 Nov 2013, 15:50:06 UTC - in response to Message 51415.  

Most Boinc projects use 1 logical thread to process 1 WU.
When Boinc is configured to use 100% of the CPU, it would in your case process 8 different tasks, each on a different thread. You can set Boinc to use less if you wish.
The exception to this is MultiThreaded applications, which can use many threads simultaneously. Not many projects have MT apps.

GPU tasks tend to use a full GPU + part of a CPU thread (up to 100%).
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