New Client available!

[CaptainMooseInc]

New client available for Windows as of 11/26/06. Other OS versions seem to be slowly coming available.

From distributedcomputing.info:


version 2.9013.498 of the distributed.net client is available for most major platforms as of November 26, 2006. This version includes an optimized OGR core that is faster on AMD processors.

[alpha]

If you're already using the pre-release (http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11739) then there is no need to download this.

Hopefully most of us have been using it all this time!

[Nitrousine]

brand new Windows pre-release client dated 3/22

http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php

edit: i am not seeing any speed increases. but it properly detects core 2 cpu's now... other than that... nothing to report.

[alpha]

The only change is:


2.9013-499 imp: x86: Faster OGR MMX cores (1-3%, depending on CPU)
I just did a quick benchmark on my single core 3700+:

v498:


OGR-P2: Benchmark for core #4 (GARSP 6.0-asm-rt1-mmx-amd)
0.00:00:17.89 [32,357,406 nodes/sec]

(new) v499:


OGR-P2: Benchmark for core #4 (GARSP 6.0-asm-rt1-mmx-amd)
0.00:00:17.68 [32,718,577 nodes/sec]

It appears to be about a 1% improvement, but this is small enough to just have been a difference of system usage whilst the benchmarks were running (even though I left it as idle as possible).