Windows S5R3 "power users" App 4.32 available

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13 Feb 2008 11:31:13 UTC
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    A (long awaited) SSE App for Windows can be found on the Power User's Apps page.

    It will badly crash on non-SSE machines.

    With the larger variety of Apps it had gotten harder to write an app_info.xml that satisfies everyone's needs. The one in this package should allow smooth migration for tasks assigned to App versions 4.15, 4.25 and 4.26. You may want to take a look into the file before installing the App (i.e. restarting the client).

    This App was built using VS2003 to avoid the serious performance-hitting bug of VS2005 ("store forwarding stall"). Unfortunately the Windows runtime debugger doesn't work there, so in case of computation errors there are fewer chances to find out what went wrong.

    Only run this if you're sure of what you're doing

    The App will probably have some CPU vendor detection linked into it (as the 4.26 has), but my guess is that the linear sin/cos code that we're using now isn't affected by this noticeably, so there should be no "penalty" for AMD users. Please try to prove me wrong!

    Happy crunching!

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    Bernd Machenschalk
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    Windows S5R3 "power users" App 4.32 available

    13 Feb 2008 11:40:21 UTC
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      The Downloadlink on the page doesn´t work.


      Hey, not that fast - I was still typing...

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      RE: RE: Hey, not that

      13 Feb 2008 12:00:56 UTC
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        Hey, not that fast - I was still typing...

        Next time I´m waiting a few minutes. ;)


        Well, actually you were right. However, an indication that I'm still working on publishing a new app is that the "thread" link on the page still points to the "dummy thread".

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        Just unziped the file to BOINC folder and it worked without problems also at running WUs under Vista 64bit.


        That's good news, thank you!

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        I should point out that I had

        13 Feb 2008 23:17:08 UTC
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          I should point out that I had a lot of help from Bikeman on this App. I wouldn't say that it were impossible without him, but it had taken me much, much longer.

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          RE: RE: Strange, 4.32 is

          18 Feb 2008 13:38:25 UTC
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            Strange, 4.32 is definitely not the official version. Please make sure to unpack ALL files in the ZIP archive to the */BOINC/projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu subdirectory.

            Well, I haven't installed the power app, yet. I've resetted Einstein@Home project since I haven't took part for a while and after that the BOINC client immediately tried to download a new E@H client with the version 4.32. So I thought the 4.32-SSE-power-app might have become the official client meanwhile.


            Nope. The client might try to find App version 4.32 because it finds tasks it had already assigned that version. Are you sure you never had installed a 4.32 App previously?

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            RE: I noticed the

            21 Feb 2008 10:31:34 UTC
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              I noticed the following: I only have the sphere with the L's, dots and lines. It's not showing my data, where it's looking on the sphere and the orange marker is also nowhere to be seen.

              Something in the graphics themselves? I can remember that it worked in 4.26
              stdoutdae.txt is empty about this. No error messages about it either.

              Link to example picture.


              This looks like the graphics program doesn't get any progress information from the main program.

              In stderr of your results there are lines like:

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              2008-02-11 07:42:28.7812 [debug]: Set up communication with graphics process.


              This means that from the side of the main application all is working well.

              Could you try to use the graphics App from 4.26? Either rename the version number to 4.32 or replace the entry in the app_info.xml.

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              RE: Got an other one that

              24 Feb 2008 15:59:18 UTC
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                Got an other one that failed on the same host with the same error (0xC0000005). No point of using this version on this host, reverting back to stock 4.26.


                If it's really related to network problems, a client with "asynchonous DNS" could fix it. I think it's currently only in development versions, though.

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                RE: ... and I am very happy

                26 Feb 2008 14:02:22 UTC
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                  ... and I am very happy with the results I am getting.


                  Well, then you probably don't want to try 4.36.

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