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g.) As I said, I don't know if the same sort of thing is going on in MPI, but it might be....The Linux monitor also reports things differently than the Windows TaskManager. All that really means is that we can't tell. Understood, posted them so if was worth anything, it would be there. Linux uses 6...

Thanks Bruce, You've broken my heart. Thought my A64's were finally being used to their potential. Sigh. Anyway, since the cores are the same, makes sense that something else is responsible. So I'll bow to your knowledge and experience. What I still don't understand is why the 4 a1 cores are almost ...

The fah smp client performance advantage in Linux is due to MPICH being written natively to linux, and only ported (kluged) to work in Windows (also a kluge in general). The Windows port of MPI is slower. Funny, in Linux, mpiexec is asleep, 0% cpu and Windows shows 0% as well. And if you think abou...

How much of the Linux advantage (15%), is due to it's being 64 bit, and so tweaks to the Win 32 SMP client will never overcome it. When will there be a Win-64 SMP client?