So i got a quad core now.

[themarker0]

What are some programs that use more then one core? Is there a list somewhere?

[Bachstelze]

What are some programs that use more then one core? Is there a list somewhere?

Making a list would be impossible. Just watch your per-core CPU usage while a program is runing and find out.

[lisati]

When I had Jaunty on my laptop (a dual core) remastersys was able to use both cores.

[jpeddicord]

Try compiling things. 4 at a time if they're using automake on a single thread, or watch the speed of one cmake or waf build. :D

[Bachstelze]

4 at a time if they're using automake on a single thread

make -jN much?

[stmiller]

http://handbrake.fr/

Handbrake uses all the cores you can through at it. 2, 4, 8... :)

Handbrake will max out all of your cores.

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Gimp is multicore aware as well:

http://i.imgur.com/cxDur.png

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There's also a cool program fraqtive that maxes out all cores you have available when zooming around:


sudo apt-get install fraqtive

[jpeddicord]

make -jN much?

#-o of course.

[3rdalbum]

My program Blacklight (which encodes video for Sony Walkmans) does symetrical-multiprocessing in an interesting way.

Walkmans only understand two video formats: MPEG-4 and H.264. For reasons of convenience (to myself and to the user) I chose my program to work only with MPEG-4, but the MPEG-4 encoder does not scale well across multiple cores. So if the user wants to encode multiple files, then Blacklight will send a video file to each core. Got a quad-core? You can encode four videos simultaneously.

Now I've since noticed that Sound Converter (apt:soundconverter) does multiprocessing in the same way. The LAME MP3 encoder doesn't do multithreading, so Sound Converter sends a file to each core for processing.

So, if your programs don't take up more than one core each, then you'll just have to run four such programs simultaneously.

[undecim]

Start running Folding@Home

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu/HowTo

[NMFTM]

What are some programs that use more then one core? Is there a list somewhere?
Supreme Commander (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4051) was the first computer game to utilize more than one core. I still prefer the original Total Annihilation (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=155) though. Besides that, computer game packaging is pretty standardized at this point. It should say on the back of the packaging if it utilizes multi-cored CPU's.

Also, Windows 7 seems to utilize more of my Phenom II X4 965's processing power than Ubuntu 10.04. It idles at about 2-6% while Ubuntu idles at about 0-1%. Oh wait, that's a bad thing :p.

What quad core CPU do you have?

[BigSilly]

/Is sadly stuck with dual core for the foreseeable future

/Is skint

/Cries

Enjoy your quad! :)

[themarker0]

Supreme Commander (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4051) was the first computer game to utilize more than one core. I still prefer the original Total Annihilation (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=155) though. Besides that, computer game packaging is pretty standardized at this point. It should say on the back of the packaging if it utilizes multi-cored CPU's.

Also, Windows 7 seems to utilize more of my Phenom II X4 965's processing power than Ubuntu 10.04. It idles at about 2-6% while Ubuntu idles at about 0-1%. Oh wait, that's a bad thing :p.

What quad core CPU do you have?

I think this is it, without finding the box.
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35365