1) Message boards : Number crunching : a question about work distribution (Message 27690)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by Profile Mad Matt
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I think it is a standard BOINC mechanism that over the course of time will try all variations of an app that can run on a device to try and figure out which is the most efficient code set. Once BOINC has figured out which runs best it will still occasionally send a different version to check and see if anything has changed from a performance perspective.

-Steve


Which does not seem to work at all as my machines keep being flooded with SSE2 since years. There does not seem to happen any kind of evaluation/conclusion on server side.


Actually it doesn't really matter too much There is a factor of two
improvement using SSE (soon AVX I hope). SSE3/pni are the same
and marginally better than SSE2. Eric.



Which may explain why the server schedulers don't show any conclusive preferences in distributing SSE2 vs SSE3/PNI. Is there any hope for some better optimizations?

As much as I loved supporting LHC since the very beginning, it's not much fun seeing resources waisted (on top of stating it's not much fun seeing any good project using 'CreditNew').
2) Message boards : News : Server status (Message 24410)
Posted 22 Jul 2012 by Profile Mad Matt
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I am still getting a few PNI and SSE2 at times. Not knowing the meaning of PNI (=SSE3) I aborted those alongside the SSE2. What about having an option to select apps in project preferences?

PS: Congrats on your likely sensational finding at LHC! \o/ Never hoped we would see this so soon.



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