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oem7110		#1 Posted : Friday, June 25, 2010 7:22:18 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 12/30/2005(UTC) Posts: 120		Is the latest version of MetaStock designed to use several threads to take advantage of multi core CPUs? Thanks in advance for any suggestions
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henry1224		#2 Posted : Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:04:38 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 10/29/2004(UTC) Posts: 1,394 Location: Glastonbury, CT Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)		Metastock will run on multi core cpu's, but it is using only 1 core. It is not designed to take full advantage of modern cpu's.
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oem7110		#3 Posted : Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:31:34 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 12/30/2005(UTC) Posts: 120		If my CPU (i-7) contains 8-core cpu, can I run 7 Metastock applications at the same time for 7 different cores? and left 1 core for general system application, such as accessing internet. Does any restriction on the number of Metastock running on the same system? such as Windows 7 Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions
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henry1224		#4 Posted : Sunday, June 27, 2010 9:26:01 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 10/29/2004(UTC) Posts: 1,394 Location: Glastonbury, CT Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)		Metastock will only run 1 application on a computer at a time. that means it will only use 1 core of your cpu and the rest are available for other programs
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oem7110		#5 Posted : Sunday, June 27, 2010 6:01:45 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 12/30/2005(UTC) Posts: 120		henry1224 wrote: Metastock will only run 1 application on a computer at a time. that means it will only use 1 core of your cpu and the rest are available for other programs If virtual machine installed on Windows 7 to create 7 OS platform, can I run 7 Metastock applications under virtual machine at the same time? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions
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wabbit		#6 Posted : Sunday, June 27, 2010 6:19:15 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers, Unverified Users Joined: 10/28/2004(UTC) Posts: 3,111 Location: Perth, Western Australia Was thanked: 16 time(s) in 16 post(s)		As Henry said, per computer, only one instance of MS can be run at a time. If you had 7 computers you could run 7 instances of MS; it doesn't matter if those machines are physical or virtual. wabbit [:D]
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vienna		#7 Posted : Monday, June 28, 2010 1:28:52 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 12/14/2009(UTC) Posts: 140 Location: Austria		You will maybe have also a license problem running 7 metastock processes at the same time.. I think metastock license is limited to 2 "computers"...
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Traetey		#8 Posted : Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:03:54 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 3/22/2010(UTC) Posts: 16		Caution: MetaStock will *not* run in a virtual machine! But why would you want to run 7 different instances of it anyhow?
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uasish		#9 Posted : Monday, August 2, 2010 12:55:47 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 8/13/2005(UTC) Posts: 170 Thanks: 7 times		Can u Run an Exploration with Live Mkt Data in Higher End Machine ? If not then Looking at charts in Intraday to trade is Primitive way to trade.
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