Can an APL function discover how many cores are avail?

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Can an APL function discover how many cores are avail?

Postby Richard.Hill » October 6th, 2010, 1:14 am

Can an APL function discover how many cores are available in the users computer?
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Re: Can an APL function discover how many cores are avail?

Postby brent hildebrand » October 6th, 2010, 12:50 pm

Richard.Hill wrote:Can an APL function discover how many cores are available in the users computer?
on Win32, this is found in the GetSystemInfo API call.
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      ⎕wcall 'W_Ini' 'GetSystemInfo'
(>SYSTEM_INFO) LIB Kernel32
The APL ADF for GetSystemInfo using the SYSTEM_INFO structure which is defined as follows in the ADF file:
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      ⎕wcall 'W_Ini' '[type]SYSTEM_INFO'
{W wProcessorArchitecture, W wReserved, D dwPageSize, P lpMinimumApplicationAddresss, P lpMaximumApplicationAddress, D dwActiveProcessorMask, D dwNumberOfProcessors, D dwProcessorType,  D dwAllocationGranularity, W wProcessorLevel, W wProcessorRevision}

The 7th element is the number of processors. So, to get this information via APL try the following:[code] (6+⎕io)⊃⎕wcall 'GetSystemInfo' â
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Postby aplus » October 6th, 2010, 10:09 pm

I ran this code on a cheap entry level Acer Netbook with an Intel Atom N450 Processor (1.66 GHz, 512KB Cache) and was surprised to see 2 as the number of cores. In Control Panel/System it reports only 1 core.
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Postby brent hildebrand » October 6th, 2010, 10:47 pm

aplus wrote:I ran this code on a cheap entry level Acer Netbook with an Intel Atom N450 Processor (1.66 GHz, 512KB Cache) and was surprised to see 2 as the number of cores. In Control Panel/System it reports only 1 core.
While true, the Atom N450 has a single core, it is also hyperthreaded, and thus I believe that GetSystemInfo will then report 2 processors. I know this is true on my Pentium computer with hyperthreading. My pentium-M no hyperthreading reports a 1 processor. Core-2 Duo reports 2. It would be interesting to see what a Core-I7 with 4 cores reports...
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Postby brent hildebrand » October 6th, 2010, 11:40 pm

The other thing to check in the results of GetSystemInfo is the ActiveProcessorMask. [code] ⎕wcall 'GetSystemInfo' â
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Postby Richard.Hill » October 7th, 2010, 1:06 am

Brent, Thank you...
Core 2 Quad Q9505 reports 4
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Postby brent hildebrand » October 7th, 2010, 8:57 am

Richard.Hill wrote:Brent, Thank you...
Core 2 Quad Q9505 reports 4
Richard, on your computer, does this[code](5+⎕io)⊃⎕wcall 'GetSystemInfo' â
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Postby Adam Kertesz » October 7th, 2010, 9:34 am

My i7-740QM is reporting 8 cores, the same as my CPU Meter gadget shows.
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Postby brent hildebrand » October 7th, 2010, 10:54 am

Adam Kertesz wrote:My i7-740QM is reporting 8 cores, the same as my CPU Meter gadget shows.
Adam, does your ActiveProcessorMask report 255? [code](5+⎕io)⊃⎕wcall 'GetSystemInfo' â
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Postby Adam Kertesz » October 7th, 2010, 4:51 pm

Yes.
(Don't forget: my APL is still version 6.4
the SYSVER is
76.3.01 Sep 8 2006 15:15:41 Win/32)
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APLNextSupervisor v0.9.25.x Will Be Released Shortly

Postby joe_blaze » December 14th, 2010, 2:12 am

The next version of the APLNextSupervisor will implement the 'NProcessors' property which will report the number of physical and virtual processors which are available on the workstation on which the APLNextSupervisor has been installed.

See the attached pdf-format document for some details.

APL+Win subscribers will be notified of the availability of the next version of the APLNextSupervisor and will be able to download the installer and try the new property themselves.
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