Also, is this true?
“On the new Mac Pro’s (Nehalem) hardware, Compressor sees 16 instances. Pretty cool.
This means that the Mac OS 10.5.7 build on theses Mac Pro’s has the necessary Intel hyper-threading code, it must.
(2 threads per core)
8 cores, but Mac OS X sees them a 16 cores.
Doing some tests, will let you know results”
Taken from: https://www.devia.be/news/article/setting-up-a-virtual-cluster-to-speed-up-compressor/
I also show 16 instances available.