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Altera_Forum
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11 years agoNumber of processors used during compilation
Hello, can someone explain this Compilation Message: Info (11104): Parallel Compilation has detected 12 hyper-threaded processors. However, the extra hyper-threaded processors will not be used ...
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
11 years agoHi all, as people suspected, we measured the impact of HyperThreading on our parallel algorithms and found them to hurt, rather than help. This isn't surprising since our algorithms are usually memory-bound anyway, so trying to do more work while we're waiting for memory just results in *more* demand on the memory subsystems, making the problem worse.
Cheers, Adrian Ludwin Altera