I've been using Mathematica for awhile now and have never come even close to maxing out my CPU cycles. Are there any functions which consume lots of CPU cycles? Right now I am running a script which uses Parallelize and is consuming about 15%.
Also, a related question -- is there any way to get Mathematica to use more CPUs? It'd be nice to get to my answers faster.
n = 100; While[True, MatrixPower[RandomReal[1, {#, #}], #] &[++n]]
maxes my CPU out pretty quickly. $\endgroup$ – Corey Kelly Jun 26 '13 at 18:25