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    Post Folding@Home New Windows client/core development (SMP and classic clients)

    The Windows SMP client is a pretty important new client for us for two reasons. First, multi-core CPUs are becoming more and more common, and second, Windows clients are the most common in FAH by far. The SMP client appears...

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    About time! It's good news though, since any CPU purchased in the last few years is likely to be multi-core.

    Haven't tried it but they sound more confident in this version.

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    We're the first distributed computing platform to roll out MPI calculations (typically reserved for supercomputers), so we are dealing with some major growing pains issues there.
    Sounds to me like they are full of themselves, the first to rol out a mp client I think they they are at least 10 years behind the curve.
    -:Beyond:-


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