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Hyper-Threading Technology provides added performance on multithreaded code and multitasking operations through better utilization of processor resources. In other terms, Hyper-Threading will cause the OS to view the processor as two logical processors. This does not mean that a Xeon processor have two completely separate processors on one die. Instead, the processor has duplicate architectural states that share a single execution resource, so the execution resource, which is often idle in servers today, will be utilized more efficiently. As a result, Hyper-threading will provide improved reaction and response time because multiple tasks can be run simultaneously. As a result, the technology should enable a platform to support more users or process more transactions than a processor without this technology.