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Anonymous
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‎02-17-2003 09:10 PM
‎02-17-2003 09:10 PM

dual processor setup question

I know the dual processor question has been discussed at length on tis NG. I was just wondering if there is any special setup in IV to allow (or make) the IDW use the second processor?

We are running Win 2000 Pro. Nobody here has any experiance with dual processor machines. I was jsut wondering if there is any special setup required.

I know this sounds like a stupid question. But I have looked and can not find any information anywhere.



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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-17-2003 09:36 PM
‎02-17-2003 09:36 PM

The idw uses both processors to make views
precise. However, if that's what you really want to do, you can set priority and
affinity for processes in Task Manager by RMB on the process you want to switch
to a different processor.

~Larry

 


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I
know the dual processor question has been discussed at length on tis NG. I was
just wondering if there is any special setup in IV to allow (or make) the IDW
use the second processor?
We are running Win 2000 Pro. Nobody here has any
experiance with dual processor machines. I was jsut wondering if there is any
special setup required.
I know this sounds like a stupid question. But I
have looked and can not find any information
anywhere.

Kevin
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-18-2003 03:47 AM
‎02-18-2003 03:47 AM

A handy way to get IV to make the most use out of
your second processor:

 

CTRL+ALT+DEL to get to task manager

List all the processes

Right Click on each process and click on
"affinity"

change the affinity to only use the first processor
on all processes

when you get to inventor.exe, change it's affinity
to the second processor

 

Then IV will have it's own processor to crunch
on while the OS runs on the first.
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I
know the dual processor question has been discussed at length on tis NG. I was
just wondering if there is any special setup in IV to allow (or make) the IDW
use the second processor?
We are running Win 2000 Pro. Nobody here has any
experiance with dual processor machines. I was jsut wondering if there is any
special setup required.
I know this sounds like a stupid question. But I
have looked and can not find any information
anywhere.

Kevin
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-18-2003 05:11 AM
‎02-18-2003 05:11 AM

no, no. dont change any affinity's

 

the os handles that for you. it will breakup
the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work well this way,
thats why there is an affinity setting.

 

changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu would
make you machine act like a single cpu.

 

 

Matt


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A handy way to get IV to make the most use out of
your second processor:

 

CTRL+ALT+DEL to get to task manager

List all the processes

Right Click on each process and click on
"affinity"

change the affinity to only use the first
processor on all processes

when you get to inventor.exe, change it's
affinity to the second processor

 

Then IV will have it's own processor to crunch
on while the OS runs on the first.
--
----------
Ashley
Fulks
Production Manager @
href="http://www.nisku.ca">www.nisku.ca
Specialized Supercomputers for
Inventor

href="http://www.nisku.ca/autocomp.htm">http://www.nisku.ca/autocomp.htm

href="http://www.nisku.ca/autocomp/autocompII.html">http://www.nisku.ca/autocomp/autocompII.html


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I
know the dual processor question has been discussed at length on tis NG. I
was just wondering if there is any special setup in IV to allow (or make)
the IDW use the second processor?
We are running Win 2000 Pro. Nobody
here has any experiance with dual processor machines. I was jsut wondering
if there is any special setup required.
I know this sounds like a stupid
question. But I have looked and can not find any information
anywhere.

Kevin
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-18-2003 05:33 AM
‎02-18-2003 05:33 AM

Actually it works quite well.  IV has been
more stable running on its own processor.  I can count the number of
crashes I have had in IV since I got my new machine (about 4 weeks ago) on one
hand with enough fingers left over to hold a cup of coffee.  When ever I
work on IDWs I switch IV back to both processors.  All my other apps run on
the other processor, however the OS will not let you change the affinity for
some of the services that are running.


--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen


--
Dell 650
Dual 2.66GHz
Xeon
1.5GB DDR RAM
Quadro4 900XGL
nVidia 6.13.10.4072
Drivers

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no, no. dont change any affinity's

 

the os handles that for you. it will breakup
the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work well this way,
thats why there is an affinity setting.

 

changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu would
make you machine act like a single cpu.

 

 

Matt
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-18-2003 11:11 PM
‎02-18-2003 11:11 PM

Not to stray from the topic, but. Why are there up
to 31 processors showing (but grayed out) when setting afinity? I thought NT
could only support two? Any body got anything with more than two
processors?

 

gcooper

 


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Actually it works quite well.  IV has been
more stable running on its own processor.  I can count the number of
crashes I have had in IV since I got my new machine (about 4 weeks ago) on one
hand with enough fingers left over to hold a cup of coffee.  When ever I
work on IDWs I switch IV back to both processors.  All my other apps run
on the other processor, however the OS will not let you change the affinity
for some of the services that are running.

size=2>

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen


--
Dell 650
Dual 2.66GHz
Xeon
1.5GB DDR RAM
Quadro4 900XGL
nVidia 6.13.10.4072
Drivers

style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

no, no. dont change any affinity's

 

the os handles that for you. it will
breakup the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work well
this way, thats why there is an affinity setting.

 

changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu would
make you machine act like a single cpu.

 

 


size=2>Matt
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-19-2003 12:59 AM
‎02-19-2003 12:59 AM

win2k server supports 4+ processors.

 

 

Matt


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Not to stray from the topic, but. Why are there
up to 31 processors showing (but grayed out) when setting afinity? I thought
NT could only support two? Any body got anything with more than two
processors?

 

gcooper

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Actually it works quite well.  IV has been
more stable running on its own processor.  I can count the number of
crashes I have had in IV since I got my new machine (about 4 weeks ago) on
one hand with enough fingers left over to hold a cup of coffee.  When
ever I work on IDWs I switch IV back to both processors.  All my other
apps run on the other processor, however the OS will not let you change the
affinity for some of the services that are running.

face=Arial size=2>

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen


--
Dell 650
Dual 2.66GHz
Xeon
1.5GB DDR RAM
Quadro4 900XGL
nVidia 6.13.10.4072
Drivers

style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

no, no. dont change any
affinity's

 

the os handles that for you. it will
breakup the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work well
this way, thats why there is an affinity setting.

 

changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu
would make you machine act like a single cpu.

 

 


size=2>Matt
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-19-2003 01:04 AM
‎02-19-2003 01:04 AM

So this is some sort of remnant from the server
product? any body running CAD on W2K server w/ 4 processors and >2GB of
RAM?

 

...and we can't even get full support for two
processors.... ;>)

 

But then this will all be trivial when we go the 64
bit systems right?

 

Thanks for the info.

 

gcooper

 


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win2k server supports 4+ processors.

 

 

Matt


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Not to stray from the topic, but. Why are there
up to 31 processors showing (but grayed out) when setting afinity? I thought
NT could only support two? Any body got anything with more than two
processors?

 

gcooper

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Actually it works quite well.  IV has
been more stable running on its own processor.  I can count the
number of crashes I have had in IV since I got my new machine (about 4
weeks ago) on one hand with enough fingers left over to hold a cup of
coffee.  When ever I work on IDWs I switch IV back to both
processors.  All my other apps run on the other processor, however
the OS will not let you change the affinity for some of the services that
are running.


--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen


--
Dell 650
Dual 2.66GHz
Xeon
1.5GB DDR RAM
Quadro4 900XGL
nVidia 6.13.10.4072
Drivers

style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

no, no. dont change any
affinity's

 

the os handles that for you. it will
breakup the load evenly between the 2 cpu's. some programs dont work
well this way, thats why there is an affinity setting.

 

changing everything but inventor to 1 cpu
would make you machine act like a single cpu.

 

 


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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-19-2003 01:26 AM
‎02-19-2003 01:26 AM

The RAM limitation will become more trivial when 64bit software becomes mainstream. Would be quite a CAD station where each CAD system had it's own CPU to run on. That would be a workaholic's CAD station.

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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎02-19-2003 02:31 AM
‎02-19-2003 02:31 AM

Give it to me and give it to me NOW!


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RAM limitation will become more trivial when 64bit software becomes
mainstream. Would be quite a CAD station where each CAD system had it's own
CPU to run on. That would be a workaholic's CAD
station.

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