Optimized clients

[Angus]

I decided to run eOn, DPAD and WCG for now, with a little Climate thrown in.
Now all I need is for eOn to quit sleeping, and DPAD to connect to server to send results.

There's a manualsend.bat in the DPAD folder that will force the upload if your results.txt file is over 10K in size.

Otherwise - it seems to have a mind of it's own for sending.

[devzero]

I see there are new optimized linux clients available from:

http://calbe.dw70.de/boinclx86.html

Seems to give better benchmarks than before.

[Bok]

I started testing them yesterday and indeed for athlon XP's they seem faster, the SSE2 ones though seem about the same as the equivalent 5.3.6 ones. I'm goign to try the 64bit SSE3 one later today on a Dual xeon with EMT64..

DC opterons don't have SSE3 do they? Fro some reason I thought they did, but




[root@dcopt17001 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 35
model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 170
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2409.649
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy
bogomips : 4828.94
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp


says otherwise...

Bok

[TeeJay]

CPUZ v1.16
x2-4200...
MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, X86-64

270...
MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, X86-64

That is what I get here Bok... So, no SSE3 .

>>TeeJay

I started testing them yesterday and indeed for athlon XP's they seem faster, the SSE2 ones though seem about the same as the equivalent 5.3.6 ones. I'm goign to try the 64bit SSE3 one later today on a Dual xeon with EMT64..

DC opterons don't have SSE3 do they? Fro some reason I thought they did, but




[root@dcopt17001 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 35
model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 170
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2409.649
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy
bogomips : 4828.94
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp


says otherwise...

Bok

[Shish]

OK, last op finished ND iM MORE OR LESS sensible for a coupla hours so ...
I tested the new crunch whatever clients and got some very odd, mixxed results that may have been affecceted by UVNCing into home server.
Mosstly about the same as normal or 2.56Ghz Opt 165@280Mhxx3bus of around 10500 but occasional (depending on what eklse running of upto 14500. n ot sure whats happening with them.
Soorry bout the mispelling but i aint got a typist here just now an im flat on muy back with the leg up rigid int ractionand using a modified book reader and pageturner so im poking at keys from below sort of and cant go back or hit some keys on this stpid mobil;e keyboard.
Off for a 3 day sleep soon after a good meal and then back and forth to Aaberdeen for hp oxygen therapy to speed up healing otherwise i d be in a body cast for 6 months and a chair for bout the same..this means i missout on the chair thank god but i`ve got a nice power one on order (coulda built 2 servers for the damn price of it ...sheesh).an thts me knaclered, steaks on the way (got the nurses horrified at steak an chips an salsald at 0530am ;-)...smoiles easier to ype than find off the pagbe somewhere. keep it up guys, cant let XS get it too easy :-).
rgards
shish
mucho gracias Lauren catch U on t flip side.

[Shish]

OK thtas breakfast/lunch/dinner for the next couple days...just found th efile onmy home desktop of comparisons on bonk/rosetta from standard/updated version and crunch3rs clients and also with nothing else hogging cpu (all services stopped inc 4 vms running dimes service) and sorry if file is as bit long....
but i cleaned a lot out i think..
mebbe this what they talkin about?
I always,when I remember, ruin manua l thingy...s
sorry puutiing me out aguin

[cwhyl]

Hi Bok
In /cpuinfo SSE3 is labled by it's codename "pni", short for "prescott new instructions"
(I have the same chip )