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One important difference between Argon and previous systems is that Argon has Hyper Threaded processor cores turned on. Hyper Threaded cores can be thought of as splitting a single processor into two virtual cores, much as a Linux process can be split into threads. That oversimplifies it but if your application is multithreaded then Hyper Threaded cores can potentially run the application more efficiently. For non-threaded applications you can think of any pair of Hyper Threaded cores to be roughly equivalent to two cores at half the speed if both cores of the pair are in use. Again, that is an over simplification, but the main point is that CPU bound processes perform better when not sharing a CPU core. Hyper Threaded cores can help ensure that the physical processor is kept busy for processes that do not always use the full capacity of a core. The reason for enabling HT for Argon is to try to increase system efficiency on the workloads that we have observed. There are some thing things to keep in mind as you are developing your workflows.
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