At last, NT-cmd ver. 3 is out!

[Guru]

Well on Katmai cpu's the speed seems to bee the same with 2.4cli 3.0cli and 2.7gui!
All in all berkley have done a great job more data with minimal loss of speed!

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[DentyCracker]

Haven't tried cli 3 yet. At home I run gui 2.70 on the Duron 700 (at 700, 750, 800 and very occasionally at 850) at 700 (win2kpro sp1) it is marginally faster than the 733 Coppermine at work (win2ksvr sp1) running gui 3.0. I suspect that is due to the heavy load on the 733 (Exchange and proxy server for 200+ clients). I administer that server so it is not a problem with permission. I also have gui 3.0 on another win2k server sp1 550 MHz Katmai and it is almost as fast as the 733 (it does a lot less work)the slowest machine I run under my name is the iPAQ 500 MHz coppermine running a 25 client cache of cli 2.4, I shall upgrade that to 3.0 later today if I make it to work. (Looking kind of dicey that, haven't slept much tonight due to Diarrhoea [like you really needed to hear that] sorry. but it's really bad.) Gotta go now.

[Guru]

Go where?

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[JC]

Soon to upgrade to V3.00, I'm currently running V2.7 on 3 machines at home and ranging from 4 hours on my classic Athlon @ 930 to 9 hours on my Celeron 500. The newer versions which are better Athlon optimised are really flying.

JC

[Rattledagger]

An upgrade on my speeds:
I've done 12 units, some fast, some slow, and got an average of 6,11h/wu.
The slowest result is 6h49m, while the fastest is 5h15m. I haven't got any units with angle-range under 0,3 yet, but if these units isn't markedly slower than the others, the slow group of units are 1 hour faster than cmd-2.04, while the fast group is 2 hours faster than before.

On my other machine, I haven't got so many results yet, so it's too early to take any average. My average on this machine was 12,78h/wu with cmd-2.04
The only interesting I currently can say here is that the fastest result is 9h1m. This is the first result under 10 hours on this machine, not counting some sub-10min-units.
The couple of other results is under 12 hours.

It seems all results are under the average for cmd-2.04, leading me to conclude that the lower L2-cache-requirements more than outweights the extra calculations that's done.
My conclusion is therefore that if you don't have 1MB L2-cache, i386-cmd-ver.3 is faster than ver. 2.04, and it's no reason not to upgrade now, since you're both helping seti@home with more science, and at the same time helping seti@murc race up the charts. Besides, you're soon forced to upgrade anyway.

[Brian R.]

How soon? No one knows, right?

[Raptor^]

The improved cache useage seems to yield a larger performance boost for CAS3 machines too (unsurprisingly). My main rig has had much greater performance boost than my old CAS2 P2-400.

Suppose that could be cos of the different cache dividers too... or maybe the differenct clock multipliers... Damn, so many variables

My slowest results so far are just under 1 hour faster than my fastest ever previous result on the 933. Still hoping for that sub 3 hour WU

I haven't really got enough results from the other machine yet, but it looks significantly faster too.


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[Rattledagger]

Well, it's official, the last date to run the old version is 18. November 2000.
There won't be a non-intel-version, since all can use the i386-winnt-version. The last date the old i486-nonintel-version works is also 18. November 2000.

[Brian R.]

Good, we don't have to guess anymore

[Guru]

Dates for the clients not yet relesed : http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html#v30dates

Oh and 3.0cli is now awailabel for download on berkley!

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[Rattledagger]

No, this is the dates then the old clients stops working. Have you linked to the wrong place, Guru?

[DentyCracker]

Have installed 3.0 at work in a 25 seti cache. Haven't checked yet as I'm stationed away from the office for the next 3 or so weeks. Guru you asked where I was going earlier, I was going where you go often when you have diarrhoea (yuck)