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Thank you for reply, Everyone.

Hi EFV, the overlay reduction is a long-processing job. Perticularly, for my scanned data, the desktop took about 30 hours to finish, but the laptop only took less than 20 hours to do the same job.

Quote from: EFV on April 07, 2009, 05:37:03 AM
As far as I can tell, though, for most of the shorter jobs, a single powerful processor will do work faster than a mid-range multicore.

I am using Polywork 10.
I am using 64 bit Polywork on a powerful 64 bit workstation (16GB RAM+ 2.36 TB HD + 4 processors @ 2.66GHz).

Sometime I also use 32 bit Polywork on a 32 bit laptop as well (2GB RAM + 120GB + 3.6GHz single processor)

After registered about 48 Scan positions together, I started the 'reduce overlay' command.

Guess what, the laptop version is a lot faster than the desktop version when doing this command on same data set with same parameters given!!

I checked the 'Task manager' - 'Performance', on my desktop. It seems that only one processor is busying in proceeseing.

So the question is "Is Polywork version 10 really a  simultaneous multi-threading program?????"

How do I configure to fully utilize the power of my desktop???