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mental ray license bug is fixed on an Intel Core i7 machine

There was a critical license related bug in mental ray 3.7 on Intel Core i7 and the fixed version seems to be distributed now. http://forum.mentalimages.com/showthread.php?t=5511 The fixed mental ray (SPM) version (might depends on OEM) is the following. mental ray 3.7: 3.7.1.31 (2009 September 16) or higher mental ray 3.7+: 3.7.53.6 (2009 October 22) or higher The detail of this problem is: When you want to run mental ray on Intel Core i7 machine, you will get the following error message: Sorry, no license available and can not run mental ray even you have enough licenses left. It seems recent Intel's CPU becomes complex to count the number of cores. This bug seems related with this. http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-64-architecture-processor-topology-enumeration/ Personally, I don't like the license that limits the number of cores. Because the new machines has more cores, but we can not use these cores because of license shortage. If I buy a new machine