Be seeing you tomorrow sometime, joining team then & doing FAH instead of Seti@Home
Well, I told myself Saturday would be the mark where I transition away from doing SETI@Home into Folding@Home...
* Tomorrow's that day.
(I'll be seeing you all on the FAH team @ some point then!)
APK
P.S.=> I did an experiment, to compare Intel CPU processing times vs. those of AMD for SETI@Home, by now ONLY running SETI on my AMD here.
And, that said?
It seems I can't break past #22 (of 1271 members total iirc) into the top 20 for "SETI@Home - Team Microsoft":
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=26482&sort_by=expavg_credit&offset=20
Mainly because I am only running 1 of my systems doing it of 2 possible here (I can't surpass guys with farms of machines doing it, like Steevo here is doing for THIS project for this team, big asset imo)...
My Intel rig got me up to 453 "rac" (recent avg. credit score) whereas my AMD now, even though it is FAR superior in Floating Point ops (via SETI benchmark), is falling short @ ~ 411 tops... this indicates a 10% difference so far, in favor of Intel CPU's using optimized clients, & yes, I am using a SSE3 optimized AMD client too!
Could not find such a recompile for specific cpu's for FAH though... @ least not so far.
My current AMD in my signature (fast as it is, & on MOST things, faster than my Intel P4 3.2ghz) is not outperforming my Intel older rig in it & I gave it PLENTY of time to show what it can do by way of comparison in SETI...
Again: Compiler code optimization for optimized clients is showing thru in favor of Intel.
Anyhow - I did my "experiment" & it is a fitting way to close off 7 years on/off doing SETI@Home & transitioning into FAH!
See you in the a.m. people... apk