CPUs - why do we have more than one?

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Colin Gillespie

Jumping Rivers & Newcastle University

CPUs

CPU: brains of the computer
- Speed has slowly stabilized
  - CPUs were getting too hot
- Multi-core CPUs
- But R only uses 1 core :(

library("parallel")
detectCores()

library("benchmarkme")
get_cpu()

$vendor_id
"GenuineIntel"

$model_name
"Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4702HQ CPU

$no_of_cores
8

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