[Gate-users] VMware virtual machine

[Jean-Francois CLEMENT]

Alan Green a écrit :
> I am running Gate on the VMware Player version (Scientific Linux) of
> Geant4 on an XP PC with two dual core processors. 
so, you have 4 cores

> I have tried running
> one or two simultaneous Gate simulations;
how many simulations you run with the same virtual machine, this use 
only 1 core (25% of your total cores)

>  whatever I do the XP Task
> Manager reports ~25% CPU usage;
Play another virtual machine it's the more simple

>  allowing for setup overhead the two
> processes take about twice the time the single process takes. Has anyone
> managed to get the VMware version to run faster with multiple
> processors?
>
>   
Use VMware server or Virtualbox and create a virtual machine that use 
the number of core you want : 1,2,3 or 4.

> Many thanks
>
> Alan
>
>   
regards,
JFC


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