What takes advantage of Dual CPUS?

[customrig]

I was wondering what programs and are capable of dual cpus. I was told the Quake 3 can do it and 3d Studio Maxx but what also. Can SETI and Folding @ Home use dualies. It would be sweet if return to castle wolfenstein could support it. Imagine playin wolfy with 3.2 GHZ of the sweetist atholon power behind you. Man I'm drooling already.

 

[skip]

You can run 2 instances on a dual machine and do twice the work units in Seti and Folding

 

[customrig]

are there programs to seperate each cpu and give tasks to each one seperately

 

[The Spyder]

Windows does it for u :-D
sPYDER

 

[RED Hot Machine]

Windows does it for u :-D
sPYDER

Well any windows OS with mutli cpu support. Which includes NT, 2K and XP.

 

[cack01]

I think he may have meant is there anything out that can let you manually choose which thread goes to which cpu.

It would be cool if there was, it is probably possible if there was a preloader that you could run before you started an app.

 

[Vfrjim1]

There is a program that allows you to specify which CPU that the program is to run on(up to 8), it is freeware and I have not tested it yet ( since my box is not currently SMP) I wish that this program was out when I did have a SMP box. Here is a link to it's manufacturer: http://www.gameroffice.com/ , I would love to know how it works especially for games that are not SMP enabled.

Jim

 

[Malakai]

Skip, how would u get the 2 folding clients to do separate wu's?
i might build a little dual duron fold box
ill have some tax return cash soon
-Malakai

 

[robertm]

Skip, how would u get the 2 folding clients to do separate wu's?
i might build a little dual duron fold box
ill have some tax return cash soon
-Malakai

Two get to folding clients to run use the consol verion of the software and make two folders I call mine FAH1 and FAH2 place a copy of the client in each folder. When you run the command line version you you need to use the -config -local to set up each client in each folder once you have the clients set up then you just need to use the -local flag you you run the client. The -local tells the client to work in there own folder and not use information in the regestry for where to find the working folder.

 

[DarkArctic]

I think he may have meant is there anything out that can let you manually choose which thread goes to which cpu.

It would be cool if there was, it is probably possible if there was a preloader that you could run before you started an app.

I can do it in Windows 2K and XP. Go to Task Manager and right click on the process. Then slect Affinity. You can choose which CPU it will run on.

-DarkArctic

 

[DarkArctic]

Also, Adobe Photoshop is multi-threaded.

-DarkArctic

 

[i_like_penguins]

Adobe Premier can also take advantage of dual processors. Does anyone know if Unreal Tournament Supports Duals? Right now I am working on a dual AMD 1900 system and I am wondering what games will all be supported. If Unreal supports duals, I am going to be a happy man.

 

[davidsnot]

UT doesn't support duallies.

Serious Sam, Serious Sam 2, Alice, Quake3, Tribes 2, and Photoshop all do.

I'm running a dual P3 box, win2k as the OS. On managing the processor load, running 2 instances of Seti, if I let the OS do it, the times are better than if I set the affinity.

The advantages of a dual box for me is that I can run 2 instances of Seti, burn a cd at 4x, browse more than 1 webpage, check my mail, and listen to mp3's without slowing down. The biggest bottleneck is disk IO, and I try to minimize that with fast drives.

Duallies Rule!

 

[cack01]

david if you don't already put your drives on a raid array. It helped me a lot I hardly ever wait on my HDDs unless im doing something huge.

 

[DSTA]

Also SMP aware:

Cool Edit Pro and probably the newer Syntrillium stuff (audio editors)

GoGo mp3 encoder

MS Media Encoder

MS MPEG4 Codecs (pretty helpfull on slower duallys, 352x288 real time encoding to MPEG4 is no problem on a dual PII 450)

TMPEGEnc (great shareware MPEG2 encoder)

Many professional CAD and 3D packages




Dunno what games actually *really* use SMP, Quake's support is supposed to be flaky at best.

Adobe Photoshop and Premiere are SMP aware, but I would not get a dual box just for speeding up those apps, since they don't gain much.

Generally and IMO, the big advantage you get from an SMP box is more "fluid" multitasking. Eg, it might not speed up the afore mentioned Adobe apps up by much, but it's nice to have Premiere generate something in the background while being able to work almost unhindered in PS in the foreground.

IME, that doesn't work as smooth even on a fast single and that no matter what amount of task priority juggling is done.

 

[qed]

plus the latest version of cubase and supposedly the new version of logic audio will follow suit..
..Q