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Free-DC
12-01-2009, 06:14 PM
We are excited to announce progress in our testing of new SMP2 cores. These cores use threads-based parallelization instead of MPI and, we hope, should be much more robust than our first-generation SMP cores. The SMP2 cores are currently in...

More... (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2009/12/smp2-core-update.html)

Chuck
12-02-2009, 03:41 PM
Gang,
I've checked on the F@H site, read the announcement in the forum, even checked under advanced (high perf beta) clients. I don't see where SMP2 is located for the Win32/64 platforms.

Is it a strictly linux SMP2 (non-MPI) implementation that is being tested?

I could not find any info in where to obtain it..... I most certainly would like to try it as the old smpd/mpiexec configuration did not operate on Vista (the laptop) in spite of it providing the duplicated printout (in console mode) that the MPI is operating.

Thanks,
C