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From: kristoph <kristophs.p...@web.de>
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Subject: Re: activate more than one core in Mathematica 6.0 (for win)?
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 07:33:13 +0000 (UTC)
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On 4 Aug., 11:54, Jens-Peer Kuska <ku...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> that is the reason why there is a Parallel Computing Toolkit.
>
> Regards
>    Jens
>
> kristoph wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > How can Mathematica 6.0 use more than one core of a quad core cpu
> > under Windows Vista? During calculations the system requires only 25 %
> > of its capacity. This implies that it uses only one of the four cores.
>
> > Thanks for answer,
> > Kristoph

Thanks for all the answers. Regarding the parallel toolkit I think it
is not up to date to separate it from the general version. But that's
how it is.

All the best,
Kristoph