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I am using a Core i7-980X running 64-bit Windows 7. I recently noticed that my computer started to crunch SSE2 work units when it supports instruction sets up to SSE3 (a.k.a. PNI), and that it used to exclusively use the PNI application. I then let them finish and drain out. I then reset the project to try to get sent the SSE3 or PNI applications to get back to full speed. I knew that SSE3 was a minor improvement over SSE2, but I wanted maximum throughput. I was then given the no optimization 64-bit application, which the task manager shows is running in 32-bit mode by showing a *32 suffix to the process name. This application is much slower because the x87 FPU (the standard FPU for 32-bit x86 processors) is very slow and is the reason AMD made SSE2 the standard FPU for 64-bit mode. Could someone please fix the scheduler to send the correct applications to the correct computers?

I had originally posted this in the number crunching board because I was unaware that there was a forum for platform independent issues. Scheduler problems are generally platform-independent issues in my mind.