Athlon64 X2

[Robert L Cochran]

Mark Hahn wrote:

>>with an Athlon 64 3500+, and I want to upgrade to the X2 processors. I 
>>also want to start programming specifically for dual cores -- I think 
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>you can practice by getting a dual-socket board with single-core chips;
>there's nothing new, at least at user-level, to dual-core.
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That would be sort of expensive for me. hopefully MSI will release a 
BIOS update real soon now.

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>>for that your code needs to start multiple threads. I need to start 
>>looking for documentation that explains how to do this.
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>yes, you need >1 thread or process.  but that can be had using many different
>programming interfaces: fork, threads, openmp, mpi, etc.
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Speaking as a beginner in C where can I find good sample code that does 
this? How can I programmatically check for multiple CPUs or a multicore 
CPU? How can I programmatically send one thread to a specific CPU or CPU 
core? Or do I just create multiple threads and let the OS decide where 
to send them?


>regards, mark hahn.
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