Core != CPU.

Your machine has 8 cores, but 2 CPUs (since it has 4 cores per CPU)

Dave

On Jan 31, 2009, at 1:19 PM, jurin...@eecs.utk.edu wrote:

On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:31 PM, jurin...@eecs.utk.edu wrote:

I am developing a computationally intense application which I need to
multi-process to take advantage of the 8 cpu's on my new MacPro with
dual
quads.  I am using Leopard 10.5 OS.

Your machine has two CPU's, not eight.

Really??

I ALWAYS thought quad-core means 4 processors as are shown when I bring up
the "Activity Monitor" CPU usage window which shows (8)???

Am I incorrect?
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