Quote Originally Posted by bowman View Post
I'm not exactly an expert but I thought BOINC just distributed different tasks to different cores. SMP tries to leverage parallelism by having four cores work on the same task. You could run 16 or 8 different single-threaded clients with different machine IDs to see what happens then.
boinc is only a distribution platform, it depends on the project which way the use, but typically they use one thread for one app.

Personally i like that more then SMP, id rather have 4 WU at that are worked at the same time then 1 at a time.