Many thanks Luke, much appreciated,
Tolga



Luke Tierney <luke@stat.uiowa.edu> 
09/09/2008 21:21

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Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>, r-help <r-help@r-project.org>
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Re: [R] Information on the number of CPU's






The wmic command line utility can also be used to query this; on a
dual-core Vista laptop I get

     C:\Users\luke>wmic cpu get NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors
     NumberOfCores  NumberOfLogicalProcessors
     2              2

luke

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, tolga.i.uzuner@jpmorgan.com wrote:

> Many thanks, that's very helpful.
> Regards,
> Tolga
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: 09/09/2008 20:57 CET
> To: Tolga Uzuner
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Information on the number of CPU's
>
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, tolga.i.uzuner@jpmorgan.com wrote:
>
>> Dear R Users,
>> I am on Windows XP SP2 platform, using R version 2.7.2 . I was 
wondering
>> if there is a way to find out, within R, the number of CPU's on my 
machine
>> ? I would use this information to set the number of nodes in a cluster,
>> depending on the machine. Sys.info() and .Platform do not carry this
>> information.
>
> Correct, since
>
> a) R does not make use of more than 1.
>
> b) It is really not portable, and not even well-defined.  (How many CPUs 
has 
> a hyperthreaded dual Xeon?  Some say 2, some say 4.  Do you want CPUs or 

> cores?  If this is a virtualized OS, is the physical number or the 
logical 
> number?)
>
> In the case of Windows, how depends on the Windows version.  The w32api 
(XP 
> or later) call GetNativeSystemInfo will tell you the number of CPUs, for 
some 
> (unstated) definition of 'CPU'.  Later versions have 
> GetLogicalProcessorInformation, which can give the number of cores.
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Tolga Uzuner
>
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