HP Z600

[Indusign]

We have here a brand new HP Z600 workstation with 6GB of RAM.
It's a quad-core processor, and now it looks like it only uses 25% of it calculation power for ProE.

Asked it our supplier and they said that this was "normal"

We need the full 100% in proE, that's why we got this computer, not to have 1/4 of it.

Anybody has a possible solution ? It runs with XP 64 pro.

 

[dr_gallup]

Run 4 copies of Pro/E at once? Seriously, Pro/E is still mostly single threaded. Nothing you can do. It's the same for most software.

 

[moriarty]

Mechanica should use all of it
some parts of Assembly use it
Rendering probably?
the web browser in WF5 I think
More is used each release, there was some discussion at
PTC'09 Conference on it.

Edited by: moriarty

 

[jerrymort]

We have a Z600 on test - dual quad core xeons, 24gb RAM, nVidia FX3800 1Gb graphics. Massive overkill for Pro-E, but really flies for analysis tasks. Around 20% faster than a comparable Xw6600 even though it has a nominally slower processor.


Pro-E Wildfire 4 seems to be a bit faster, the 1Gb graphics work better for big assemblies. Performance gains probably due to better bus architecture and faster components generally. Pro-E still mostly uses 1 processor out of 8 though...

 

[looslib]

A quad-core machine showing 25% is using one core to its fullest power. That is about all you casn get from Pro/E.

 

[Indusign]

So it looks like the full 25% of capacity is all we can squeeze out of this brand new machine.

Will need to have "a word" with the company that sold it to us then.

Anybody has an idea on what system on the market today will be more suitable instead of any 2-4-... core machines they all present now as the ultimate workstations,

 

[looslib]

Don't give up on the dual/quad-core machines. You do get a full core dedicated to WF while still allowing the other cores to do other tasks. In the single core days, that one core would be switching between WF and the other tasks.