I have the fastest mac in the world - but why
by Craig RussillRoy
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Jul 17, 2009 at 10:11:32 am
Howdy all
ok been doing this trade fir over 20 years from 2 inch to SaS to SAN - I would like to think I am a expert on the mac land but I have never seen this !
Just started my own company and bought a mac pro 2 x 2.66 8 gig ram - no news there - installed fcs2 and made a quick cluster and to my surprise I magically gave my 16 processors !! All working - anyone seen this before ???!!!
Re: I have the fastest mac in the world - but why by Terry Mikkelsen on Jul 17, 2009 at 12:14:31 pm
Congratulations. Your mac has 2 chips, each of which have 4 processors embedded. Welcome to the new Intel processors. They are able to handle two threads at the same time. So you are correct in seeing 16 processes.
Re: I have the fastest mac in the world - but why by Craig RussillRoy on Jul 17, 2009 at 12:30:53 pm
Cheers guys I appreciate the response but with the other 23 8 cores I have they are only showing up as 8 Processors in the Activity Window the other machines Non Nehalem Processors only come up as 8 ..... is there something I am missing !!??
Re: I have the fastest mac in the world - but why by Craig RussillRoy on Jul 17, 2009 at 1:46:08 pm
HYPERTHREADING !!!
Just talked to my supplier - NMR.com and they have informed me that the new processors are hyperthreading ... haven't heard that word in MAC land for ages ... so sorry for the propaganda everyone !!
