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This is pretty cool!
Posted by: BigDuallie on: 03/20/2000 02:56 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ]
Over the weekend I had time to play with a sweet little utilty for WinNT/2000. If you've ever gone in to the task manager and tried to set processor affinities, you need this utility! 16 year-old Mike Lin has done us all a service by writing an app called "SMP Seesaw". Here's the scoop:
SMP Seesaw is a small utility for dual-CPU workstations that allows the user to finely tune how Windows balances the processing load between the two CPUs.
By default, Windows tries to balance the processing load as evenly as possible: when one process is running on CPU 0 and another process needs to execute, Windows runs it on CPU 1. This greatly improves multitasking performance under Windows NT and even moreso under Windows 2000. However, it is sometimes useful to dedicate an entire CPU to only one or two processes to get maximum performance from them - single-threaded games, software-based DVD playback and VMware (www.vmware.com) are good examples.
The Windows 2000 task manager allows the user to set "process affinities" that force a process to execute on one processor only. However, there is no practical means to isolate one or two processes to a CPU and keep other programs on the other processor. SMP Seesaw provides a means to do this.
Note: SMP Seesaw is entirely useless if you don't have a dual processor system or don't use Windows NT 4.0 / 2000. Currently it does not support quad or even more insane systems.
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#1609 Posted on: 02/17/2005 08:58 PM
The Register has posted a review of IBM's Thinkpad T42p. The T42p sports ATI's Mobility Fire GL T2 workstation graphics chip. What sets a workstation chip apart from standard graphics chips is its certification for use with certain high-end graphical design packages. So if you want a notebook to run a CAD package, or a 3D rendering application, you'll want one that has a graphics chip approved by the software vendor. That way, when you run a preview of that complicated scene that you've been working on for days, you know it will work.This really does look like a mobile workstation. You might want to take a look. |
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#1610 Posted on: 02/17/2005 09:38 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#1611 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:20 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15 |
#1612 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:25 PM
The guys over at SFFTech have posted a review of Iwill's ZMAXdp SFF. If I'm not mistaken, Hooz is running one of these units in the secret 2CPU.com underground test bunker. After previewing two "engineering samples" and now reviewing the final shipping product, we can confidently say that the ZMAXdp continues to amaze us. As you |
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duke Administrator Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#1613 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:31 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15 |
#1614 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:33 PM
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