Altivec support?

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atesserot Send message Joined: 11 Sep 01 Posts: 2 Credit: 0 RAC: 0	Message 94207 - Posted: 3 Apr 2005, 1:00:25 UTC Does the new client support altivec on G4 and G5 machines ID: 94207 ·
N/A Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0	Message 94260 - Posted: 3 Apr 2005, 4:13:53 UTC AFAICT not yet. The only way would be to compile from source code. ID: 94260 ·
Aleksander Szablewski Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 34 Credit: 5,133,740 RAC: 0	Message 94493 - Posted: 3 Apr 2005, 20:29:58 UTC Go to http://members.dslextreme.com/~readerforum/forum_team/boinc.html You can use their optimized workers with Deep Thought. But not with Menu Bar. ALX ID: 94493 ·
Optical Serenity Send message Joined: 14 Jan 05 Posts: 9 Credit: 91,404 RAC: 0	Message 100726 - Posted: 18 Apr 2005, 7:24:46 UTC I followed that link, and its awesome. I'm running the G5 optimized with Altivec code. I went from 850 MFLOPS to 1431 MFLOPS...And a jump from 2900 something integer ops / second to 3296 int ops / second. Wish I had found this sooner! Blackhole forums - technology, politics, computers ID: 100726 ·
Aleksander Szablewski Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 34 Credit: 5,133,740 RAC: 0	Message 100836 - Posted: 18 Apr 2005, 17:53:16 UTC - in response to Message 100726.   :-) Maybe you're interested in an application that would give you a glipse of what is going on there? I made one, you can download it with this link: http://www.boinc.dk/download.php?file=Boinc_Stat_Viewer_1.1.zip ALX ID: 100836 ·

 
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