On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Robert Bradshaw
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:51 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> BTW, if www.sagenb.org runs on a single PC with a quadcore, the
>> question still remains, is Sage multicore aware without dSage or are
>> you using dSage here?
>
> Some of the underlaying components, like ATLAS, can be compiled to be
> multicore aware, but for the most part one uses DSage or pyprocessing
> to take advantage of this. There have been several threads on this in
> sage-devel and sage-support. The notebook itself, however, starts a
> separate sage instance per worksheet, so it can easily take advantage
> of multiple cores. I think the VMWare player only will give you two
> cores, no matter how many physical cores it has.
>

VMWare workstation, which I use to serve sagenb.org allows one to
assign 1, 2, or 4 cores to a virtual machine.  I've assigned 4 cores
to sagenb.org.

William

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