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How do I set BOINC to use both CPU cores for climate prediction?

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Message 26728 - Posted: 11 Feb 2007, 15:47:21 UTC

I want to use both CPU cores for climate prediction on my Pentium 945 (dual core). It only uses 50% of CPU power at present, and will take 93 days to run a project, at 24h per day.
I will probably upgrade the system between now and then. So if I cant set this up to work flat out there is no point starting, I will just do one of the other projects like rosetta (all my other systems use 100% CPU, and all are dual core). I dont know whats up with this project?
Any suggestions on how to get the CPU use to 100% of both CPU cores?
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Message 26730 - Posted: 11 Feb 2007, 18:51:59 UTC

93 days is about normal for a fast computer running 24/7.

It\'s not possible to run one model on both processors.
But BOINC has an option, in General preferances on your Account page, to use 2 processors, and then run 2 models simultaneously.

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Message 26732 - Posted: 11 Feb 2007, 20:57:53 UTC - in response to Message 26730.  

It\'s not possible to run one model on both processors.
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How then can I use both cores when I run Rosetta, Tanpaku or similar project calculations?

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Message 26733 - Posted: 11 Feb 2007, 21:05:52 UTC

Presumably there, you have a large cache of the shorter WUs, and each core is running a different one at any given moment.

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