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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Any way to use hyper-threading?

I'm running Quartus II 9.0 SP2 on a quad-core Intel Core i7 920. This is the latest line of Intel chip, which features the return of hyperthreading, so there's actually 8 processors total. However, Q...
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ocraM
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1 year ago

I know this is old but has there been any update on this?
The link http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/solutions/rd03222007_376.html from the last comment is leading me to altera home page.

I'm having the same problem on an 4-core 8 threads processor machine with Quartus 23.1 lite. I tried adding

set_global_assignment -name NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS 7


to my qsf file but i get

Warning (20031): Parallel compilation is enabled for 7 processors, but there are only 4 processors in the system. Runtime may increase due to over usage of the processor space.