My Laptop only has two cores,
In[69]:= $ProcessorCount
Out[69]= 2
And
In[66]:= $ConfiguredKernels
Out[66]= {<<2 local kernels>>}
But if I run this
In[1]:= LaunchKernels[10]
Out[1]= {"KernelObject"[1, "local"], "KernelObject"[2, "local"],
"KernelObject"[3, "local"], "KernelObject"[4, "local"],
"KernelObject"[5, "local"], "KernelObject"[6, "local"],
"KernelObject"[7, "local"], "KernelObject"[8, "local"],
"KernelObject"[9, "local"], "KernelObject"[10, "local"]}
What does those Kernel objects mean?