48 Processors!!!! In PT10HD

[Onswoll]

Hey guys,

I have 24 Cores, and 48 Threads on my PC!!!
Unfortunately, PT10HD only see's 32.
See attached pics...

Previously I was running 16 cores, and 32 Threads which PT recognized all of them.
But PT does not see the new upgraded dual 12-core processors even though Windows 7 sees them.

Anyone out there see more than 32 processors in Pro Tools 10?

Motherboard: EVGA SR-X
CPU's: Dual 12-Cores (Dual Intel XEON E5-2696V2)
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

[Obsidian Dragon]

It looks like your computer has too many processor cores for Protools. You better give it to me and get a lesser computer.

[roberts]

I've got 51 on my 2013 Mac Pro w/ HDX 3...
27 on the cards plus 24 on the CPU

[Onswoll]

Hey Roberts,
I wasnt counting HDX cards.
Just CPU threads im concerned with.

I just updated from 10.3.4 HD to 10.3.8 HD.
And Pro Tools still doesn't see the 48 Cores.
It only sees 32 which I was running before I upgraded the cpu's.

I wonder if I need to reformat the PC before PT will recognize all the cores.
This is important to me as I am processing huge sessions and I need the speed!

Thanks for all comments, could sure use some more though....
Rob

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Onswoll

Hey guys,

I have 24 Cores, and 48 Threads on my PC!!!
Unfortunately, PT10HD only see's 32.
See attached pics...

Previously I was running 16 cores, and 32 Threads which PT recognized all of them.
But PT does not see the new upgraded dual 12-core processors even though Windows 7 sees them.

Anyone out there see more than 32 processors in Pro Tools 10?

Motherboard: EVGA SR-X
CPU's: Dual 12-Cores (Dual Intel XEON E5-2696V2)
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

Are you able to test this out in Pro Tools 11 by chance?

Shane

[Onswoll]

Hi Shan,

I read Pro Tools 11 removed the "Host Processors" pull down menu under "Playback Engine".
So now you cant see or select the number of processors you have.
Pro Tools 11 will now manage that feature itself.
So we won't be able to determine how many cores Pro Tools will actually assign itself with.

This is the main reason I am hesitant to jump to PT11.
I require massive processing power!
Oh and no RTAS support!
Upgrading every plugin I have would cost me ~$5K

Rob

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by Onswoll

Hi Shan,

I read Pro Tools 11 removed the "Host Processors" pull down menu under "Playback Engine".
So now you cant see or select the number of processors you have.
Pro Tools 11 will now manage that feature itself.
So we won't be able to determine how many cores Pro Tools will actually assign itself with.

This is the main reason I am hesitant to jump to PT11.
I require massive processing power!
Oh and no RTAS support!
Upgrading every plugin I have would cost me ~$5K

Rob

Have you tested that things actually scale for your workload and plugins as you you keep increasing core counts? (even to 32 threads?)

And the rewrite/re-architecture of plugin processing in Pro Tools 11 may well scale much better than the legacy Pro Tools architecture. That you can't twiddle a knob really does not mean anything. And I'm somewhat surprised you don't run out of memory in a session that seems to need such huge processing power. What plugins are you running? at what sample rate?

[Emcha_audio]

Originally Posted by Onswoll

Hi Shan,

I read Pro Tools 11 removed the "Host Processors" pull down menu under "Playback Engine".
So now you cant see or select the number of processors you have.
Pro Tools 11 will now manage that feature itself.
So we won't be able to determine how many cores Pro Tools will actually assign itself with.

This is the main reason I am hesitant to jump to PT11.
I require massive processing power!
Oh and no RTAS support!
Upgrading every plugin I have would cost me ~$5K

Rob

When you open the system windows in Pro tools 11, click on the little triangle beside the cpu, that will show you all the cpu's you have. Download the demo, you should be able to use it for 30 days still, if it's still available.

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Onswoll

Hey Roberts,
I wasnt counting HDX cards.
Just CPU threads im concerned with.

I just updated from 10.3.4 HD to 10.3.8 HD.
And Pro Tools still doesn't see the 48 Cores.
It only sees 32 which I was running before I upgraded the cpu's.

I wonder if I need to reformat the PC before PT will recognize all the cores.
This is important to me as I am processing huge sessions and I need the speed!

Thanks for all comments, could sure use some more though....
Rob

You can also run a plug-in benchmark test in PT 11 and monitor the CPU usage via task manager. You'll still be able to see if PT 11 is accessing all your cores.

Shane

[guitardom]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Have you tested that things actually scale for your workload and plugins as you you keep increasing core counts? (even to 32 threads?)

And the rewrite/re-architecture of plugin processing in Pro Tools 11 may well scale much better than the legacy Pro Tools architecture. That you can't twiddle a knob really does not mean anything. And I'm somewhat surprised you don't run out of memory in a session that seems to need such huge processing power. What plugins are you running? at what sample rate?

That's my thought, 48 cores needed for plugins...WOW...but only 3gb of ram not an issue??