CPU Capability detection coming to a BOINC client near you soon
8 Jul 2006 18:56:51 UTC
Topic 191537
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I just noticed that a new version of BOINC has been released to beta, v5.5.6, that includes cpu detection. Hopefully project applications optimised for specific cpus will be automatically delivered to crunchers directly sometime soon ;)
Micro managers beware, a new cpu scheduler is included also.
CPU Capability detection coming to a BOINC client near you soon
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Amazing, no less than a year after I explained BOINC Devs (which strongly opposed such a possibility even existed *ugh*) that CPU ID is easy and practical, they actually start doing it *g*
Nonetheless, good to hear they finally got their act together ;)
Actually we don't use CPUID.
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Actually we don't use CPUID. That could pose potiential problems if the OS doesn't have proper support for the instruction sets.
Same problems as last year, the difference now is that we have the updated documentation that tells us what the OS's support.
I've described things in greater detail here.
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Excellent! Good description
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Excellent! Good description in the article as well. Thanks.
I've read it couple days back
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I've read it couple days back and also found it Rom's explanation excellent.
What I still miss in BOINC is the 64-bit CPU and OS capability, so that BOINC *knows* that it runs (a) CPU with 64-bit support and (b) OS with 64-bit support.
Running (a) is not enought for 64-bit applications but without detecting (a) and (b), we will never get there...to the world of 64-bit apps delivered officially from projects.
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That's easy, at least on Linux. Either you're on i686 or on x86_64 platform. This is already known to the boinc-client today...