Windows optimized SETI@Home clients - Initial public release

[Simon]

Hi everyone,

with the help of a lot of people who dedicated their time to testing, provided feedback and donated for the compiler/library licenses, here is what you've been waiting for:

Windows optimized clients (static executables, 32/64-bit compatible)

There are various different optimized clients. Please use a program like CPU-Z to find out exactly what your system supports.

Choose the first, in order, your system supports among the two lists (AMD/Intel or Intel only).


Intel-only clients (do not run these on AMD systems!)

Pentium M SSE2-optimized client
Only use this client on Pentium M systems like Dothan, Banias or Core Solo/Duo. Use the next ones for all other Intel CPUs.

Pentium 4 SSE3-optimized client

Pentium 4 SSE2-optimized client


AMD and Intel-compatible clients

SSE2-optimized client

SSE-optimized client

MMX-optimized client


You can find statistics and information about these clients on the Result comparison table. Host information like CPU type, RAM, Cache size etc. is included. Please take a look before you download, you may find that for your specific CPU, a different client is quickest.

Please read Instructions.txt for Installation instructions.

These clients include the checkpoint() fix mentioned here.

Also, please post your results!

Regards,
Simon.

[Peter]

Hi Simon,
I'm sure I followed the very easy directions in the info file and I restarted boinc. I'm only getting client errors and don't know why.  If I delete all files in my Seti folder will I be able to download the original files again from the Seti site?
Thank you!
Peter

[Simon]

Yes you will. Simply stop BOINC, delete the app_info.xml and .exe file, then restart it. It should redownload the standard app for you.

Did you use CPU-Z to check what your computer supports? Most likely the reason that it's erroring out is you're using a version not designed for your machine.

Also, could you please supply a link to those results? I would be very interested in them.

Regards,
Simon.

[Peter]

Yes, I did use CPU-Z.  I've got a P4 HT 2.6 and downloaded the SS3 version.   I had used the SS3 on one of AKOS files before the new version of SETI.  I appreciate what you have done very much and once I am crunching again I will watch the boards to see if anyone else has the same problem.
Thanks again!
Peter

Here is the link to my results.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?userid=8370477

[Simon]

No P4 2.6 with HT I know supports SSE3 - maybe I'm wrong. To my knowledge, the right version for you would be the P4 SSE2-optimized version. You can easily see whether a version runs on your computer - simply open a dos box, navigate to where you extracted the file, and run it. It will tell you about problems then and give you the chance to fix things before your WUs on BOINC go wrong.

Regards,
Simon.

P.S. Someone else was adamant his P3 supported SSE2 (they don't). He had the same trouble you did.

[Peter]

I'll delete the app_info_xml and the .exe file and download your  P4 SSE2-optimized version and let you know how it works!
Peter

[Simon]

Hi again,

the link you posted does not work for me Please go to the "your hosts" page and post either the link on the left (computer id) or the one to the results for that computer (on the right).

Good luck with the SSE2 version! It should definitely run on your system.

Regards,
Simon.

[Peter]

Results from the SSE3
ID 2268317
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php

Now running happily on SSE2 just as you said!
Cheers Simon!  I'm very grateful!
Peter

[Simon]

It's in "Your Account" then "Computers on this account" on the setiathome home page.

HTH,
Simon.

[archae86]

I've got three diverse systems running your download.  No troubles after I fixed my head-fade about the level of SSE supported by my P3.
The Pentium M WinXP SP2 pro system has returned two validated results
ID351705901
ID351688186

The Gallatin WinXP Pro SP2(Northwood-descended P4 Extreme Edition) host running hyperthreaded with an Einstein S5 on the other side has a validated result ID351257359

The Coppermine Pentium III Win98 SE host has validated  on a mixed old/new result

(edited again to add validated result from yet another host)

[pepperammi]

Host ID 1774683 Pentium D 830 3.2Ghz, Dual channel DDR2, Win XP
xP Release Result ID 351696436 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696383 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696452 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696484 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696465 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696413 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696500 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696385 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696367 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696422 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696488 Validated
xP Release Result ID 351696480  pending
xP Release Result ID 351696498  pending
xP Release Result ID 351696440  pending

All AR=1.090487

[EDIT]
Added 2 results and updated couple to Validated

[EDIT2]
Added another 2 results and updated another to Validated

[EDIT3]
Added 4 more and updated 1 to Validated

[Dirk Sadowski]

Hello!

Since I have your "setiathome-5.15-kwsm-mmx.exe" on my AMD K7 600 MHz I have a few problems with my PC.
After a little time working on my PC, open and closed a few times the Internet Explorer, it comes a error message like:
"Internet Explorer have become an error, it must be closed! Would you like to send the error message to Microsoft?"
And I cannot open other windows.
After a long time I come back and switched on the display, there was an error message:

preupd.exe
Die Ausnahme "unknown software exception" (0xc000001d) ist in der Anwendung an der Stelle 0x77c0f928 aufgetreten.
Klicken Sie auf "OK", um das Programm zu beenden.

And a lot more error messages comes too.

Now, this is because of the new app?


On my AMD K8 3200+, he is running 24/7 without working other programs, no problems.
A True angle range: 0.051058
CPU time 14432.40625 with your V5.15
CPU time 13914.15625 with Cruch3rs V5.12
So yours is 518,25 seconds slower.
Only one experience. :-)

Greetings!

:-)

[Peter]

Host ID 2268317 Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz, XP, SSE2-optimized 5.15 client
Result ID 351725476 Validated
Result ID 351791673 Validated
Result ID 351911138 Pending
Result ID 351964959 Pending

40-45% speed up!
Thank you so much Simon!!
Peter

[Simon]

Hi Dirk,

yeah, I noticed that his apps run more quickly on AMD systems, mostly. Shows me there is still room for improvement

I don't know what kind of trouble the MMX app is making on your slower Athlon - did you run Crunch3rs MMX app on it before without trouble?
Speicher testen mit Memtest - http://www.memtest.org z.B. - klingt für mich so, als ob Windows keinen virtuellen Speicher (Auslagerungsdatei) mehr frei hat und deswegen die anderen Programme abkacheln.

Regards,
Simon.

[Roger]

Hi Simon,

Your SSE version seems to be runing well on:
AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)

No results yet to report.

I am sorry to ask for more, but could you please find a way to make the cliets self-update?  I'm sure many others also run multiple machines in multiple locations.  Manual updating is quite tedious.

Thank you for your time and effort.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=41362
Roger Bannon, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA

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