Stephan Grupp wrote:
> I have a Dell workstation with 2 processors (quad Xeons, total 8 cores,
> 4GB of RAM). Empirically, I have found that the "breakeven" point is 5
> instances of Prime 95 - if I go past 5 instances, I lose so much
> iteration time on all running instances that my total throughput drops.
>   

the bottleneck is likely memory bus bandwidth.    8 instances of prime95 
hammering on your memory system is a LOT of accesses/second...


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