multi-processor management

[Slydman]

I did a search and did not found the answer.

 

Is mastercam able to manage multi-processor? or still working with single processor.

 

And where can i set them?

[Guest]

Mastercam does not currently us Multi-core processors.

 

You can lock Mastercam down to use only a particular core of your processor.

 

with Mastercam running click CTRL+ALT+DEL, then Task Manager

>> processes tab

 

Then find and right click on teh mastercam.exe >> set affintity, then leave checked the CPU you wish to dedicate to MASTERCAM.

 

You will have to set it each time your start MCAM

[1 master]

hey jc are there any benefits to doing what you suggested?

[Guest]

None that I have seen.

 

Mulitple sessions of Mastercam are not suppported so locking down should present no issue or increase.

 

Mulit-core support is what we need

[Slydman]

Thanks a lot John,

 

So there is no advantage.

 

I was thinking if we were able to lock mastercam on one core and the other running other stuff. But it's not that simple.

 

My computer is single core, but i am trying to convice my boss to buy dual or quadro core to get my computer faster, but there is no advantage because my computer is used on mastercam 90% of the time. He doesn't want to spend money on it.

 

Thanks again

[bogusmill]

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So there is no advantage.

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Not exactly true. One cpu core is all MC uses but a dual core can have an L2 cache of up to 6Mb and my Xeon quad core has 12Mb cache. With the Xeon any one core can use the whole cache and as we've seen in the benchmark thread, cache utilization makes a bigger difference than anything else with MC.

[YoDoug®]

The Cimco-hsm add in for mastercam supports multi-core processing. I ran some simple comparison test to the HST toolpaths and the processing time is twice as fast.

 

http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...ic;f=1;t=031155

[Brian B 74]

I run 2 windows of X3 at once and I lock 1 window to core #2 and the other to core #3. I don't see an increase in processing time, but while the windows are processing I have noticed some difference in other programs that are running (email, web browser, etc).