GCP Datalab - Increasing CPU utilization to ~100%

Question

I'm using n1-highcpu-8 machine and running single notebook. the CPU utilization is always below ~20%. is it possible to use multi CPUs for utilization increasing?

Answer 1

There's nothing that automatically makes your notebook use multiple CPU cores; The notebook kernel will only ever use a single CPU core.

If you want to use multiple cores, then you have to either make your code explicitly run in parallel (e.g. take a look at the multiprocessing library ), or use a framework which does that for you.