cpus

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It would be really nice to take advantage of multi core CPUs without having to use subprocesses.

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(video games) Any character or entity controlled by the game software.

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noun

(video games) Any character or entity controlled by the game software.

noun

(nursing education) Initialism of clinical practice unit.

noun

(computing, slang) The main computer case containing the central components of a personal computer.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cpus.

noun

(video games) Any character or entity controlled by the game software.

noun

(nursing education) Initialism of clinical practice unit.

noun

(computing, slang) The main computer case containing the central components of a personal computer.

noun

(computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit. [(computer hardware) The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.]

Example sentences

It would be really nice to take advantage of multi core CPUs without having to use subprocesses.

The 2012 Server Datacenter Edition is a mere ~6000 USD and allows to run unlimited VMs on up to two physical CPUs.

CPUs (or cores in a CPU) have a pretty small instruction cache.

Unless you have many CPUs, nothing happens at the same time.

It would be cool to see a graph of the watts/lumen efficiency of light bulbs over the last 50 years and of the joules/operation of CPUs.

It is something that should have been obvious to anyone who understood cache performance in CPUs, but now at least people have something non-academic to point to.

I've heard that argument since we started having dual CPUs 5-10 years ago.

Performance Engineer Austin, TX We are looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help deliver best in class hardware acceleration using modern GPUs, CPUs, and other advanced coprocessors.

That's a lot of CPUs without AVX2 support.

That's not a problem for IO bound workloads but does not scale well over multiple CPUs for CPU bound tasks that do most of the work in Python-land.

I think Intel's CPUs win out there, based on your linked benchmarks.

They run into the performance barrier, so they build a chip with more CPUs on it and hand the problem off to the compiler team and the rest of the software world.

Quote examples

Xen allows this for example: "vCPU Pinning for guests - You can dedicate a physical cpu to a particular virtual cpu or a set of virtual cpus." What exactly do you find hard to believe?