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SETI at HOME Enhanced V6.09 (CUDA 23)
perryjay:
Will this be added to the installer app-info anytime soon or could someone show me what I would have to add in? I'm really good at messing up my app-info when I try to do it myself! :-)
Jason G:
--- Quote from: perryjay on 11 Dec 2009, 12:33:06 pm --- Will this be added to the installer app-info anytime soon or could someone show me what I would have to add in? I'm really good at messing up my app-info when I try to do it myself! :-)
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Hi there. No app_info mods required. Just drop the new DLLs over the old ones in the setiathome project folder. A revised installer will likely eventually use 2.3 as baseline install, but other improvements to applications are in progress, so updating that isn't a priority at the moment, since the current version works as baseline, for advanced users to optionally tweak.
The 2.3DLLs offer a high degree of improved performance over 2.2 ones. If, however, you aren't entirely aware or confident with the possible ramifications of switching the DLLs out (pushing things harder), or what you were doing and why, I'd normally probably advise against it ... Since you've come here to enquire about the right way to go about things, I'd say give it a go (swapping the DLLs in which is actually easy), If you break it you own both parts ;).
Richard Haselgrove:
Jason,
Would you happen to know whether the v6.09 application (presumably the one installed at Beta on 13 August) actually contains any code updates of any significance, or is this just a fudge to allow automatic distribution of the 2.3 DLLs to hosts with adequate drivers/BOINC versions?
If there's no significant application change (even bug-fixes), as I suspect, we can safely say that it makes no difference at all to people already using optimised applications - who are already able to drop in the 2.3 DLLs if they are using a recent-enough driver.
perryjay:
Thanks guys. I had already swapped in the 2.3 DLLs in but was also thinking there might have been some extra changes in the 6.09 build. A case of you never know until you ask ;D
Jason G:
--- Quote from: Richard Haselgrove on 12 Dec 2009, 08:29:23 am ---Jason,
Would you happen to know whether the v6.09 application (presumably the one installed at Beta on 13 August) actually contains any code updates of any significance, or is this just a fudge to allow automatic distribution of the 2.3 DLLs to hosts with adequate drivers/BOINC versions?
If there's no significant application change (even bug-fixes), as I suspect, we can safely say that it makes no difference at all to people already using optimised applications - who are already able to drop in the 2.3 DLLs if they are using a recent-enough driver.
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A quick look a while back told me nothing of consequence, though I've been occupied lately with other things. Will need to chase up the Berkeley svn adresses again to look, when I get around to it.
Jason
[Later:] Listing observed changes in 6.09 checkin, which is a bulk one dated 18th August 2009, Joe's fixes to fllops counting date after that 26th August 09 :
- some addition of a preprocessor directive to anyalyzefuncs, to allow turning on/off locking affinity to a single core in build
- changed Cuda DLLs
- Some changes to logging output
- some removal of syncronisation in soem puslefind kernels ( I beleive we already did this, but will check)
So apparently no, AFAICT no specific changes to make 2.3 work, or make them work differently.
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