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Re: st: 50% CPU Performance, Stata or Computer?


From   Nomoreno <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: 50% CPU Performance, Stata or Computer?
Date   Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:25:06 -0500

I guess you are right because the task manager shows two CPU performance windows.

Quick question: Why do you say that if I disable it in the BIOS, the actual performance will be the same? I would think the simulations will run twice as much faster as before if I disable it. Am I missing anything here?

Thanks!


[email protected] wrote:

I suspect it might be because you have a CPU which supports HyperThreading (HT). If this is the case then there is nothing to worry about. My understanding (correct me if I am wrong), is that HT essentially makes you computer think there are two CPUs (look in your System properties). If you are just seeing 50% usage then it just means that Stata does not support HT and so does not have any performance boost as a result of this.

If you disable HT (which you can typically do in the BIOS) then I would expect that CPU usage would shoot up to 100%. However, the actual performance which you get will be the same.

Nomoreno wrote:


Hello all,

I was puzzled by one annoying thing of my computer and I don't know whether I should fault Stata or my computer.

Basically, I am running computational intensive Monte Carlo simulations on Stata under Windows XP on a brand new Dell Inspiration laptop. Somehow my Task Manager shows that the computer is using 50% of its CPU usage on this computer. It is weird because the same program always use 100% of the CPU on my old machine.

I suspect it is the problem of my computer rather than my Stata, though I am not 100% sure. Anyone has any ideas to release the remaining 50% CPU power of my computer? I really appreciate your help!


Best,
Simon

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