Manually determining the number of cores on your computer

You can use the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line tool (WMIC) to determine how many physical cores your server has. This is useful if you do not know whether your computer will meet the minimum hardware requirements for installing Tableau Server.

1. Open a command prompt.
2. Enter the following command:
   WMIC CPU Get DeviceID,NumberOfCores
   The output will display the device id or ids and the number of physical cores the computer has:
   
   In the above example there are two CPUs, each with six cores, for a total of twelve physical cores.
   A longer command will list the logical processors as well as the physical cores:
   WMIC CPU Get DeviceID,NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors,SocketDesignation
   
   In the above example, in addition to the twelve physical cores, there are 24 logical cores. ( hyperthreading * physical cores e.g 2* 12)