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Old 13-01-2007, 00:23   #11
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Re: Dual Core Wastage

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Originally Posted by Rob View Post
I suspect that you would at least have to somehow install tow completely separate versions of the software, i.e. version 1 to \program files\copy 1 & version 2 to \program files \ copy 2. Even then you'd probably have to play around in the registry and what not to ensure the PC identifies the settings of each separate instance as a completely separate program.
I would have thought as much - too much grief.

Hey do you fold for ocuk ? I boinc for them.

Anyway the machine I ran this process on have BOINC running on both processors - as soon as I ran my program the 2 BOINC instances were shuffled both onto the spare core as they should have and returned back to using both cores when my singled thread cr*py program finished.
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