CPU Info

Read various bits of information about the CPU and operating system.

Description

This function reads various bits of information about the CPU and operating

system, including:

 * CPU name

 * CPU clock speed

 * CPU Cache size (L2)

 * Number of physical CPU cores

 * Operating system name & version

These are provided by /proc/cpu (Unix), sysctl (Mac) or WMIC (Windows).

Requires MATLAB R2010a or above.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.10 (2010a)

[Stephen]

 

[Daniel Dolan]

This function does exactly what it says it should. Is there a way to pull a serial number from the CPU?

[Ben Tordoff]

Hi Daniel, I don't know much about CPU serial numbers, but from what I've read they don't exist in modern CPUs. See e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_Serial_Number#Controversy_about_privacy_issues

When I ask for the serial on my CPUs (on linux) I just get "none specified".

It might be possible to get the motherboard serial number, although I haven't managed to get it on Linux without sudo'ing (not a problem on Windows as far as I can tell).

What is it you want to achieve?

Cheers. Ben