The invention relates to the technical field o radar systems, discloses an external radiation source radar real-time signal processing method based on multi-CPU processing, and a multi-CPU computer or server is utilized to realize external radiation source radar real-time signal processing with a general programming language, thereby increasing the flexibility of realization of signal processing of an external radiation source radar. The whole signal processing process of the external radiation source radar is split into a plurality of processing steps of clutter suppression, correlation processing and target detection, each step runs on a different CPU resource, the processing time of each step is smaller than accumulation time of a set of data, i.e., if a signal loss phenomenon does not occur, continuity and real-time performance of signal processing are realized, and through the method provided by the invention, clutter cancellation processing can be completed, the flexibility of signal processing of the external radiation source radar is improved, and real-time performance of signal processing of the external radiation source radar is realized. In addition, the development period of signal processing of the external radiation source radar can also be shortened, and requirements for development technicians by signal processing of the external radiation source radar are lowered.