Questions tagged [hyper-threading]
A technology by Intel to increase processor throughput, by adding independent logical processing units in each core (and thus exposing two times the number of cores to the operating system).
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What is the difference between hyper-threading and multiple cores?
In a conversation with the network administator, I mentioned that my machine was a dual-core. He told me it was not. I brought up the task manager, went to the perfomance tab, and showed him that ...
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What is hyper-threading and how does it work?
I've heard the term hyper-threading thrown around a bit recently, what exactly is hyper-threading and why is it important?
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How does Windows processor affinity work with hyperthreaded CPUs?
How does Windows processor affinity work with hyperthreaded CPUs?
Let's use an example (pictured) of a system with four cores, each with a hyper-threaded virtual core.
Which cores correspond to each &...
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Disable Hyperthreading in the Windows 7 registry
Some bios's Do Not have the option to disable Hyperthreading of the CPU, it there a way to disable it in the Windows 7 Registry? Or a tool or software?
I know about msconfig boot tab (advanced ...
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Why is my dual-core CPU recognized as a quad-core one?
My processor is an Intel Core i3-380m. As you can see, it's 2 cores and 4 threads.
Although, both Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 seem to think it's a quad-core CPU:
Why is this? Is it because there are ...
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How much speedup does a hyper thread give? (in theory)
I'm wondering what the theoretical speedup is from hyper threaded CPUs. Assuming 100% parallelization, and 0 communication - two CPUs would give a speedup of 2. What about hyper threaded CPU?
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What are "hyperthreading" and "virtual cores"?
I'm new in this computer terms. So anyone can explain to me what "virtual cores" and "hyperthreading" are at greatest detail a layman can understand?
People told me that virtual cores are imaginary ...
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Quad Core host with hyper-threading, how many processors to configure in VirtualBox?
I have a quad-core i7 processor with hyperthreading (8 logical cores), when I configured a virtual machine to use 8 processors, VirtualBox gave me a warning saying that I only have four cores (which ...
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Hyperthreading Calculating Load [duplicate]
I have a dual core core i5 with hyperthreading. Since hyperthreading allows for unused cpu time to be used by other processes, why would this make it seem like 4 logical processors (2 per actual core)....
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Task Manager is saying the system is running with over a thousand threads
I opened up Task Manager and looked under the "System" area and saw:
Threads: 1337
Since I have a dual-core processor with hyper-threading available (meaning four threads), how is it possible to ...
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Single Threaded Qaud Core v.s Hyper-Threading Dual Core [duplicate]
Let's say we have two CPUs, One is Quad Core 3.2 Ghz with 4 Cores, and We have a Dual Core 3.2 Ghz with 2 Cores with 2 threads in each Core (Hyper-Threading). My assumption as a programmer will be, ...
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Number of cores available to VMware Player limited to physical cores or hyperthreaded cores?
I have an i7 with 2 physical cores, because of hyper threading Windows 7 reports 4 cores (at least in the Task Manager). My question is, when allocating cores to a VM in VMWare Player is it taking ...
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Why does Windows 10 have CPU core parking disabled?
Why does Windows 10 come with core parking disabled?
It seems to me, that core parking is good in most cases. Especially considering Turbo Boost does not work until some cores are parked.
Also why ...
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Why are 16 threads more efficient than 8 on an i7 with hyperthreaded 4 cores? (Robocopy)
In Windows 8.1, I am using Robocopy to save 2 servers' data onto a dedicated PC's storage space. The data volume is 147,314 files in 4,110 folders (66,841,845,760 bytes).
All 3 involved PCs feature ...
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How to disable HyperThreading on Mac OS X Lion?
Unlike my old Windows Boxes and Linux Boxes, I do not have access of something similar to a BIOS on my MacBook Pro.
I want to disable Intel i7's HyperThreading (so 4 cores look like 4 cores and don't ...
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disable hyperthreading on a multi-core Dell PC
I have a Dell desktop running Windows 7 Professional. I think the processor is an Intel Core i7-2600
Recently a computer expert who specializes in Linux clusters was looking at my desktop PC and ...
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How to disable HT in a Intel Atom D425?
I can't find in the BIOS the option to disable HT.
Is this a BIOS problem or the processor itself doesn't support running as a single core?