Windows S5R3 SSE power App 4.36 available

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Bernd Machenschalk
Bernd Machenschalk
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26 Feb 2008 14:00:37 UTC
Topic 13654
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    A "prefetching" SSE App for Windows can be found on the Power User's Apps page.

    This App features the prefetching code of the previous Linux and MacOS Apps. It should be rather fast.

    However I found the graphics not coming up properly every time, but couldn't deterministically reproduce the problem. It would actually be nice if someone has a machine that shows this problem somewhat reliably. My current guess is that it requires a "shared user" installation.

    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 contains the following tags and should allow smooth migration for tasks assigned to these versions:
    415
    425
    426
    432
    436
    You should take a look into the file before installing the App (i.e. restarting the client) if your version is not listed here.

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

    Happy crunching!

    BM

    BM

    Bernd Machenschalk
    Bernd Machenschalk
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    Windows S5R3 SSE power App 4.36 available

    27 Feb 2008 18:15:27 UTC
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      Bernd,

      I build my own BOINC 5.10.43 with all the latest fixes. Copied over my BOINC data directory to a testing directory. Put the BOINC 5.10.43 files in it and started running it. Then checked the graphics.

      In 5.10 I see everything in the graphics, so including my own data, the clock and the search information, thereby excluding my video card to be the culprit. As a conclusion, it's BOINC 6.1.8 which doesn't play nice yet.


      I see. For the bug report: there must be a "key" the BOINC core client writes into the "boinc init data" that tells the the graphics app where to find the shared memory segment with the progress information. Looks like this is broken (or at least different) in the 6.1.8 core client.

      BM

      BM

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