Is there a way in Java to find out how many CPUs (or cores) are installed?

Question

I want to make some tuning for multithreaded program.

If I know how much threads can really work in parallel I can make the program much more effective.

Is there

Answer 1

How about (code snippets speak a 1000 words):

 public class Main {

 /**
  * Displays the number of processors available in the Java Virtual Machine
  */
 public void displayAvailableProcessors() {

    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();

    int nrOfProcessors = runtime.availableProcessors();

    System.out.println("Number of processors available to the Java Virtual Machine: " + nrOfProcessors);

 }

 public static void main(String[] args) {
    new Main().displayAvailableProcessors(); 
 }
}