Re: [SLE] BOINC performance

From: Linuxjim (linuxjim_at_jjfiii.com)
Date: 11/21/05

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    Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:

    >Sat, 19 Nov 2005, by kenziem@sympatico.ca:
    >
    >
    >
    >>I have a dual boot machine. When I checks the stats on the seti page I
    >>noticed that they were different when running XP, or SuSE. The machine is
    >>mostly idle. Is anyone else running setiathome? Any thoughts on boosting
    >>perfromance?
    >>
    >>Running under XP
    >>GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.93GHz Microsoft Windows XP SP2,
    >>(05.01.2600.00)
    >>
    >>Measured floating point speed 1390.1 million ops/sec
    >>Measured integer speed 2412.94 million ops/sec
    >>
    >>Running under SuSE 9.3 with X
    >>GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.93GHz Linux 2.4.21-297-default
    >>
    >>Measured floating point speed 733.63 million ops/sec
    >>Measured integer speed 1895.05 million ops/sec
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >I've seen the same thing here. Even in wine the Windows client is
    >faster than the Linux one.
    >>From what I read on the einstein@home forum there are significant
    >differences between the Intel compiler that was used for the Windows
    >client and gcc for Linux, with the Intel one being (far) superior in
    >speed optimization for i686 code (I think gcc delivers smaller
    >object-file though).
    >Of course the Intel compiler /only/ makes i386 code, not code for a
    >dozen other processor like gcc. And, being the "inventor", they
    >probably know some tricks the gcc developers don't, or don't think
    >is important enough to implement.
    >
    >Theo
    >
    >
    Does anyone know if there is a gui BOINC client manager for KDE similar
    to KSetiSpy or Ksetiwatch?

    Jim 

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