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2017-12-01

Hyper-Threading and Processor Utilization During RFEM 5 Calculation

When calculating an RFEM 5 file, Task Manager shows a usage of only about 50%. Why does the calculation not use all the kernels?


Answer:

The calculation does use all the kernels. However, some processors support hyper-threading.

Hyper-threading is a technology that allows a single physical processor core to present itself to the operating system as two logical cores in order to improve processor utilization.

Some applications benefit from this and run faster. However, this is not the case for the computational kernel of RFEM 5. Therefore, the computational kernel of RFEM 5 often uses only the physically available cores, and Task Manager shows that the processor seems to have a usage of only 50%.


Author

Mr. Faulstich is responsible for the quality assurance of the RFEM program and provides customer support.



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