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Former Member
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I'm a newbie to WCG and wondering if my 64 bit Windows 7 running on AMD dual cores is getting the best performance. Are your clients compiled for 64 bit architecture?
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cowtipperbs
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Take a look here....
----------------------------------------http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=minimumreq As a side note only projects running at the time are the following.. FightAIDS@Home - Autodock /FightAIDS@Home - VINA Mapping Cancer Markers The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2  |
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Jack007
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I'm a newbie to WCG and wondering if my 64 bit Windows 7 running on AMD dual cores is getting the best performance. Are your clients compiled for 64 bit architecture? Welcome to the GRID! Should come with a warning label cuz it's addictive.  |
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Former Member
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I'm a newbie to WCG and wondering if my 64 bit Windows 7 running on AMD dual cores is getting the best performance. Are your clients compiled for 64 bit architecture? All sciences except present CEP2 have 32 and 64 bit versions. A new CEP2v2 is in development. It will have a much bigger address space need i.e. will likely come in 64 bit version too. While 64 bit are expected to be faster than 32 bit, this may not always be the case. BOINC will test which of the 2 is fastest on a host by running a series of some 20(?) [not sure if WCG ever activated this]. When acting as 'repair man' you may see a 32 bit copy being send in between 64 bit tasks. Generally, 64 and 32bit have a 4-8 percent performance difference [so was the statistical finding]... not a whole lot. 32 bit science apps benefit almost as much from running on a 64 bit OS. NB. Having a 32 bit BOINC on a 64 bit OS makes no difference. The 32 bit client [BOINC just being a science app task manager] handles 64 bit science app properly. Latter is what the work does, not the BOINC core client. |
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Rickjb
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Post Count: 666 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sekerob: "Having a 32 bit BOINC on a 64 bit OS makes no difference."
But a 32-bit BOINC client may get different (lower) vaues for its CPU benchmarks. Credit claimed by the client is based on its benchmarks, and credit awarded by WCG is usually based on the credit claimed, to some extent. PS: I was unaware that 32-bit BOINC clients could run the 64-bit science programs. - Thanks |
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johncmacalister2010@gmail.com
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WELCOME, jennjacobsen!!
----------------------------------------  crunching, crunching, crunching. AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro (part time)  |
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Former Member
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Thanks everyone for the input. I have lot's to learn but it's for so many great projects. I'm hoping to upgrade and add GPU computing soon. Now the question is NVidia or AMD. :)
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The trouble choosing between NVidia and AMD/ATI is that one does CUDA but is mediocre at OpenCL, and the other does well at OpenCL but does not support CUDA. Where the future will go as to which of the 2 will become general... don't know. Probability is, WCG will steer the route for going OpenCL on the next GPGPU project [and PMCC already has experience with that code set]. This way does not exclude any of the main brands.
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