64bit Cruncher

[Wellcky]

Anything new that does well on an AMD 3500 64bit, not running WinXP64 yet, but I am looking to start up a project again.

 

[SirUlli]

i only new at a 64 bit Linux client

http://www.bm-makler.de/setiathome/boinc/pc/boinc_5.3.6_x86_64.tar.bz2

but for Info, if you do this, i think you do what you do...

Sir Ulli

 

[keeleysam]

You can't run a 64-bit client on a 32-bit OS.

Do SETI/BOINC with an optimized client.

 

[biodoc]

I tested XPwin64 beta recently on my turion laptop. Everything went reasonably well but I could not find a sound driver or a print driver for my system. I couldn't live without either so I went back to XPwin32. If I had to do it over again, I would collect all the win64 drivers unique to your system (sound, video, etc) before I started the upgrade and burn them to a CD. PlanetAMD64 forum is a good source for a lot of driver info.

The F@H 32bit client does run on win64 but very little to no improvement in speed (not suprising)

If you go to the F@H forum and search for win64, there are interesting discussions. According to Vijay Pande (Stanford U; leader and founder of F@H), they have no plans for 64bit clients because in his words:
"Keep in mind that 64bit is only for integers. It has nothing to do with floating point, which FAH spends most of its time doing."

I guess you need to find a project with a 64bit client that spends a significant amount of time integer processing?

 

[ProviaFan]

On the contrary, since F@H is primarily floating-point dependent, that means that it would work nicely on modern GPUs, if they ever get that client finished and out in the world. It would give me an excuse to upgrade to a nicer GPU...

 

[Insidious]

I have been curious about the GPU processing. BUT..... With the thermal designs of most video cards, (let alone it's thermally upside down mounting in the case) I don't think I'd be willing to let them put my Video card at 100% 24/7. Video cards just aren't built or mounted in a way that lends itself to the solutions I use to cool off my CPU making crunching possible (edit: Maybe practical is a better word) on that chip.

barely even $0.02

-Sid

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Insidious
I have been curious about the GPU processing. BUT..... With the thermal designs of most video cards, (let alone it's thermally upside down mounting in the case) I don't think I'd be willing to let them put my Video card at 100% 24/7. Video cards just aren't built or mounted in a way that lends itself to the solutions I use to cool off my CPU making crunching possible (edit: Maybe practical is a better word) on that chip.

barely even $0.02

-Sid

You do bring up good points, which should not be ignored. In light of that, however, I wonder if the introduction of Vista, bringing with it more widespread use of GPU capabilities in general, will not lead to GPU manufacturers being a bit more careful in terms of making sure that their products have cooling solutions with enough potency for long-term operation. I can only hope, because from all that I've heard, I would definitely love to run F@H on a Radeon X1900XT (I don't have one now, but it would be more than enough motivation for me to find a way to buy one!).

 

[mondobyte]

BOINC 32 bit client and 32 bit applications run very nicely in Windows XP Pro 2003 (64 bit version) or in Windows XP Pro (standard 32 bit version) .... as well as many Linux flavors (32 bit and 64 bit) ...

Use the optimized client and/or applications that are available.

I run BOINC as a service on several 64 bit machines and have no requirement for any graphics display.

mondo