artlantis multicore

Hi
I’m working on 2x14 core processors machine
my artlantis rendering takes only about 60% of their power,
it looks that artlantis only can take 16 core to adress,
my previous comp was 2x8 core and it worked for 100% of their power,
Has anyone knows something about that ,I’ve tried the render manager too and it was even longer…
and btw - artlantis rendering has 4 phases , 3 of them including rendering take 50% of time and the last 4th called final process take the rest … any comments

Hi, yes we’ve noticed that behavior with Artlantis (and many other rendering software solutions). As the number of cores increases the process does not escalate that well. Unfortunately that’s normal & predictable, and not related specifically to Artlantis. It’s a conflation of the law of diminishing returns & Amdahl’s law. If you’re curious about it you can check more info about the limits of paralellization in Wikipedia here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law