New apps for S5R6?

Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein)
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RE: RE: Does that imply

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Does that imply that Windows 7 ( ie. the API ) wasn't reporting the CPU capabilities sufficiently well enough for the needs of the switcher ?

Cheers, Mike.


Did the switcher rely on external tools/reports to identify the CPU, or did it test CPUID directly itself?

It did it all by itself.

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Mike Hewson
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I'd thought that given ( via

I'd thought that given ( via Control Panel -> System ) Windows 7 can tell me in some detail what CPU I have, then maybe there was a known API call for that.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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RE: I'd thought that given

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I'd thought that given ( via Control Panel -> System ) Windows 7 can tell me in some detail what CPU I have, then maybe there was a known API call for that.

Cheers, Mike.

You probably access the information via WMI.

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New application? Optimized

New application? Optimized for at least SSE2? Are You sure? ;-)
I see no difference at all - processing speed is the same!

Gundolf Jahn
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RE: New application?

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New application? Optimized for at least SSE2? Are You sure? ;-)
I see no difference at all - processing speed is the same!


As stated before in this thread, the application is the same (has 'always' been optimized), just the starting mechanism has changed.

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

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RE: ...just the starting

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...just the starting mechanism has changed.


Not only this. New application is showing "To completion" approximately 2 times lower as old application (on every machine). ;-)
So the possible additional goal of new application may be... to give us "might-have-beens", that we will compute faster and will start earn credits, comparable with MilkyWay credits for CPU. :o)
If to say something serious... Danke schön, Gundolf, für Erklärung.

Richard Haselgrove
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RE: RE: ...just the

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...just the starting mechanism has changed.

Not only this. New application is showing "To completion" approximately 2 times lower as old application (on every machine). ;-)
So the possible additional goal of new application may be... to give us "might-have-beens", that we will compute faster and will start earn credits, comparable with MilkyWay credits for CPU. :o)
If to say something serious... Danke schön, Gundolf, für Erklärung.


The reduced "To completion" estimate would be nothing to do with the new application. Your local BOINC client is responsible for that, based on:

1) The project's estimate of how much work is involved in an individual task.
2) Your client's estimate of how quickly it can do that work.

It is possible that estimate (2) has been thrown off by a correction factor ('DCF') misled by inaccurate project estimates for the early ABP2 tasks. Wait until a new S5R6 task has completed before jumping to any conclusions.

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RE: Wait until a new S5R6

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Wait until a new S5R6 task has completed before jumping to any conclusions.


I made no conclusions - You missed smiles in my previous reply. It was maybe a bit black, but only humor.

Mike Hewson
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A whole crop of GW's : #6

A whole crop of GW's : #6 3.01 (S5R6sse2) have arrived - polishing off the vanilla 3.01's now.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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