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    Running an application on multiple CPUs

    I have a multi-threaded application, written in Visual Studio C++.
    However, I'm told that, when running on a system with multiple CPUs (a server), only a single CPU is used by the application.
    Is there some setting within Visual Studio that allows applications to be run on all available CPUs?

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    Re: Running an application on multiple CPUs

    It depends upon how the program has been coded. If it is coded as a multi-threaded program, then the number of threads used is dependent upon how the program uses threads. It might be coded to just use 2 or 4 or ??? threads - irrespective of the number of available cores. You might have say 2 physical CPU chips with each having say 4 cores - ie 8 cores in total. The program might utilise all 8 cores or just 2 or?? as per the program coding for using multiple threads. It's also possible - and common- for programs to use more threads than available cores.

    A single thread can only run on one CPU at a time. A single thread cannot be shared amongst CPUs. But multiple threads are shared amongst available ones. If your program uses say 6 simultaneous threads then if there are 6 or more available CPUs then each thread will probably run on it's own CPU - depending upon the overall processes/threads running on the system in total.
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    Re: Running an application on multiple CPUs

    Quote Originally Posted by rmirani View Post
    However, I'm told that, when running on a system with multiple CPUs (a server), only a single CPU is used by the application.
    It is decided by the OS. In the case of Windows, Microsoft says this,

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ple-processors

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