The good news, Workstation 7 supports up to 16 cores in a 4 socket, Quadcore system. The bad news is it is limited to 4 "cores" per physical CPU... so 8-threaded CPU's like the Core i7 are SOL.
This kernel has some scaling problems on BigAdv WUs and more than 8 cores ... we'll try to build a new one using a different basis (2.6.31 for instance).
CPU architecture optimization : Core2 / Xeon (instead of standard x86_64)
NUMA Enabled (Memory optimization)
Kernel timing set to 100hz (with 100Hz, kernel swaps processes every 10 ms (1/100). Default value is 1000Hz, every milliseconds. It reduces process swapping between cores, but might turn the system sluggish for everyday use, and using the computer might slow FAH down more than usual)
CPUfreq forced to Performance mode (which implies Turbo Mode always on on i7 CPUs and helps to keep CPU at full speed under reduced loads, ie A1 core)