How to get maximum degree of parallelism for task parallel library usage?

Question

I want to use Parallel.invoke. If i assign 20 parallel task, only 8 of then are run concurrently. My CPU is http://ark.intel.com/products/47925 and the reported number of th

Answer 1

Parallel tasks are basically threads that can be shared. Because the number of active threads is limited by the number of logical processor cores that are available, a good guess would be to just take the number of logical cores available to the program.

Environment.ProcessorCount