{"id":272,"date":"2012-08-30T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?p=272"},"modified":"2012-08-30T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:22:09","slug":"misc-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Misc. Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently got a new desktop computer with an Intel i7 processor.<br \/>\nI was puzzled briefly &#8211; when observing performance of World Community Grid, I see it runs eight tasks. Then it sank in &#8211; i7 is a four-core processor.<br \/>\nMy P4 machine runs two tasks (one core. two threads per core)<br \/>\nMy i3 laptop runs four tasks &#8211; two cores, two threads per core.<br \/>\nThe i7 runs eight tasks &#8211; four cores, two threads per core.<br \/>\nI like it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/index.jsp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/index.jsp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Community Grid runs one task per thread on common CPUs. That means two tasks per core. <a href=\"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?p=272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}