Re: How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels

From: Martin Knoblauch
Date: Wed Dec 27 2006 - 10:51:29 EST



--- Gleb Natapov <glebn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> If I run two threads that are doing only calculations and very little
> or no
> IO at all on the same socket will modern HT and dual core be the same
> (or close) performance wise?
>

actually I wanted to write that "HT as implemented on XEONs did not
help a lot for HPC workloads in the past"....

Cheers
Martin

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