Are Houdini Fluids Multithreaded?

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I run a heavy simulation on XP64 with 4 gb ram, intel quad core, and the sim not use all the processors avaliable it only uses 50%, is that normal?
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Only certain phases of the simulation are multithreaded - so you should see the cpu meter jump up to 100% for part of the simulation, no?

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Yes Yes, at certain parts of the sim the meter reach the 100%.

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