I work IT for a US university, and I've got a call from a professor who seems convinced that her machine is "only running on one core". She claims that when she uses MATLAB, task manager shows it ...

Enabling all cores of a processor can improve performance and multi-tasking capabilities, reduce the amount of energy consumed by the system, and improve the overall stability of the device, as the ...

Since 2005, computer CPU chip makers have increasingly adopted the use of multiple cores to increase performance. Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before ...