For those who likes to test on own hardware I decided to make available this set of AstroPulse builds for CPU:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60381958/AstroPulse_CPU_different_builds.7z
Only few of them will be shipped in new installer but maybe something else would be the best for your particular setup.
Binaries are provided as is, for those who familiar with offline benchmarking and app_info.xml creation in hope they could be useful.

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Nice. What are they built with these days? gcc?

Nice. What are they built with these days? gcc?

MSVC 2008

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Results for a Phenom II 945. The first result is the 0.41 installer app.

Raistmer, thanks for these new apps.

Could someone explain how to make a bench test?
With which tool & tasks?

Thanks.

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On Core2Duo running Windows XP AP6_win_x86_SSE3_CPU_r2148.exe wins by a very small margin.

@Dirk:
Get the benchmark package and test WUs from lunatics:
http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=5
Inside the benchmark package is a readme file explaining the usage.

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Best task for comparison is Clean01.wu

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Thanks.

I never made a bench test run with apps which make a ".wisdom" file.

AFAIK, with the 1st & 2nd run (different tasks) of such app this file will be done. 3rd+ run (other tasks) the calculation time is shorter.
How should I take this into account in the bench test run case?
1st & 2nd run (different tasks?) just for creation of the ".wisdom" file?
I could use this ".wisdom" file from one app also with an other app?

Thanks.

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Best task for comparison is Clean01.wu

What is the estimated time to completion for that wu?

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Best task for comparison is Clean01.wu

What is the estimated time to completion for that wu?

Depends on the CPU of course.
On my FX its around 300 seconds.

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Depends on the CPU of course.
On my FX its around 300 seconds.

Thanks, then i'll try again with that wu! :)

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Depends on the CPU of course.
On my FX its around 300 seconds.

Thanks, then i'll try again with that wu! :)

You should use r_1797 as reference app to make sure what the difference is to previous app.

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You should use r_1797 as reference app to make sure what the difference is to previous app.

I did exactly that, here is the result:

WU : Clean_01LC.wu
AP6_win_x86_SSE_CPU_r1797.exe -verbose :
Elapsed 397.906 secs
CPU 377.453 secs
AP6_win_x86_SSE_CPU_r2122_all_opt_archSSE.exe -verbose :
Elapsed 391.578 secs, speedup: 1.59% ratio: 1.02x
CPU 370.813 secs, speedup: 1.76% ratio: 1.02x
AP6_win_x86_SSE2_CPU_r2137_all_opt_archSSE2.exe -verbose :
Elapsed 398.625 secs, speedup: -0.18% ratio: 1.00x
CPU 379.891 secs, speedup: -0.65% ratio: 0.99x
AP6_win_x86_SSE2_CPU_r2137_no_opt_noarch_USE_SSE.exe -verbose :
Elapsed 393.906 secs, speedup: 1.01% ratio: 1.01x
CPU 374.328 secs, speedup: 0.83% ratio: 1.01x
AP6_win_x86_SSE3_CPU_AMD_r2148.exe -verbose :
Elapsed 388.875 secs, speedup: 2.27% ratio: 1.02x
CPU 369.203 secs, speedup: 2.19% ratio: 1.02x
AP6_win_x86_SSE3_CPU_r2137_all_opt_archSSE2.exe -verbose :
Elapsed 386.875 secs, speedup: 2.77% ratio: 1.03x
CPU 367.547 secs, speedup: 2.62% ratio: 1.03x <- This one now wins.
AP6_win_x86_SSE3_CPU_r2148.exe -verbose :
Elapsed 387.828 secs, speedup: 2.53% ratio: 1.03x
CPU 369.188 secs, speedup: 2.19% ratio: 1.02x

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[quote]Results for a Phenom II 945. The first result is the 0.41 installer app.
Would be nice to mention what on Y-axis and on what task bench was done.

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[quote]Results for a Phenom II 945. The first result is the 0.41 installer app.
Would be nice to mention what on Y-axis and on what task bench was done.

I used ap_18se08aa_B6_P1_00046_1LC25.wu that I got from here. 2.34% blanked. Default command line switches. All the apps validated strongly similar to the baseline. Y-axis is cpu time in seconds.

Might as well mention also the time for the baseline 1797 is wrong. It's an old cached result. I may have tweaked my northbridge since then. The current cpu time for 1797 on this machine is 454.469s. So the slowest of the test apps are about the same as 1797.

Here is the full output: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/5xwrpj51x58ew62/13-12_20140214-0013-benchAP_raistmer.txt?dl=1

The current cpu time for 1797 on this machine is 454.469s. So the slowest of the test apps are about the same as 1797.

This concurs with our results of inner testing.

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Can someone explain the file names. The version number, SSE, etc I get, but what are the no_opt and the noarch? I am guessing no_opt means no optimisations.

Also was there an all_opt for x64? It looks like the only x64 was a vanilla version. Does avx yield anything?

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Still no improvement over r557 on my C2Ds. Both machines are now using AP6_win_x86_SSE3_CPU_r2148.exe and the run-times are slightly longer. Both machines are clocked at 3 GHz...

Still no improvement over r557 on my C2Ds. Both machines are now using AP6_win_x86_SSE3_CPU_r2148.exe and the run-times are slightly longer. Both machines are clocked at 3 GHz...

There's a good chance a c2d could be memory bound.

So far I am seeing shorter run times.
Not by much but definite shorter run times.
I was running SSE r2083 CPU and it was averaging 40000 sec on a 0% blanked task
Now with r2148 AMD SSE3 CPU I am seeing 36000 sec on a comparable 0% blanked task.

Will keep testing to make sure these observations are correct.

Boinc 7.3.2 Pre Release x64
Phenom 2 1100T @ 3.8
NB 2.6
HT 2.6

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