/proc/cpuinfo file seems quite different on Alpha systems and x86 systems. Here is a simple patch to get cpus number on Alpha systems, given the output you gave earlier.
Regards, Carl Chenet
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> #Alpha plateform
> if line.startswith('cpus detected'):
> cpucount = int(line.split()[-1])
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