Re: st: Stata MP and Windows Server

[Hua Peng <hpeng@stata.com>]

Tim R. Sass wrote:
> I am running Stata MP (licensed for 8 processors) on a machine with four 
> dual-core opteron CPUs (8 cores in all).  The OS is Windows Server 2003, 
> standard edition.  Despite Microsoft's original claims, Windows task 
> manager only indicates 4 processors and Stata will not let me set 
> procs_use to more than four processors with the current setup.
Windows server 2003 standard edition only supports 4-way symmetric 
multiprocessing. You need Enterprise edition for 8-way SMP support. The 
following web page from Microsoft compares different editions of Windows 
Server 2003. The section under "Hardware Specifications" contains the 
SMP support information.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/features/comparefeatures.mspx#64Hardware%20Specifications

-- Hua
   hpeng@stata.com

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