A few are: Games, graphics processing programs, engineering programs, some database programs, some web programs, search programs and of course those folks that like to steal spare compute cycles. Regards, Les H On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:42 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:41 PM, <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Of the thousands of 64-bit F10 applications/tools/utilities, I wonder how > > many are aware of and can scale across multiple cores. Has anyone done a > > recent survey to see which packages are [not] multi-core aware? > > I may be way off-base here, but I would expect very few if any apps > are "multi-core aware". Multiple cores get you better performance when > more than one process needs the cpu, but a single I/O-limited process > isn't going to go any faster. Likewise, single-threaded apps can't do > anything with multiple cores even if they aren't I/O limited. > Specialized parallel-programming apps are a different matter, but how > many of those do we typically see on a desktop? > > poc > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
