Solidworks performance enhancement

Hi,
I was interested to know if solidworks gives me an option to use the
idle processing time on other computers on my company network.

If any one is aware of it kindly let me know.

Regards

 

This is too strange as I was just discussing this here this morning. Our
conclusion was that SW is not even written to be able to utilize multiple
processors in the same machine, so therefore it wouldn't know what to do
with multiple processors on the network. Some day maybe......

WT

 

If it were possible the benifits to PhotoWorks would be.........OOOHHH
Just thing about how much faster you could render a video too.

I had better stop dreaming.

I did look for something of the sort a few months
ago........searching..........

There was one app that you could use as a wrapper over other applications
but for the life of me I can't find anything on it now. It has been said
that SW by nature is processed very linear like since everything is
dependant on what is before it. But PhotoWorks can definitely take
advantage of multiple processors but I am not sure if there is a thread
limit.

Corey

 

Corey,

It's my understanding that PW2 does infact make use of dual processors if
they are there. It does not have support for network rendering. Not yet
Anyway.

 

Back in 89-90 we used to do that to the extent the graphic arts department
was complaining we were stealing the CPU cycles from their Apollos. We ran
big simulations and needed every clock cycle we could get. So anyone that
had a Unix box was raided for free cycles. That was Unix then, this is
Windows now, where true multi-tasking and multi-processing is still a
feature to be invented. And of course it wasn't SW we were running either.

Just a long winded way of saying no, SW won't use multiprocessor machines,
clustering or even hyperthreading.