I am a bit confused over just what the stock apps are, especially when it is true (I think) that, at least for now, they are the same as the "new" Lunatics apps. How does that work? Are the apps smart enough to figure out whether I am SSE4.2 or AVX or whatever?
IIRC, the Lunatics apps have several versions depending on CPU specs.
So what actually will get installed by stock?
And if not the "best" (AVX I assume), what are the relative performance of the apps for an i7-4790k, say?

Thanks for your help!

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Perhaps by adding autocorrelation to the search, making things possibly more complicated, but also giving a chance at being able to detect an intelligent signal coming from space.

If you happen to be familiar with the .avi files for the WOW signal, it was not detected by the numbers that were being visible.

I think that the GPU application for v8 should be much anticipated, at least when having a capable graphics card.

So what actually will get installed by stock?

The application that is the most compatible with older hardware, so basically MMX, 3DNow!, SSE etc support.

And if not the "best" (AVX I assume), what are the relative performance of the apps for an i7-4790k, say?

If your CPU & OS can make use of AVX then it's worth using.

When there was no v8 GPU application I ran the stock CPU application and run times for longer running WUs were around 4-4.5hrs. Now I'm running the GPU application (which uses a good chunk of CPU time) the AVX CPU application run time for longer running WUs is around 3.5-3.45hrs (with the occasional 4.5hr extra long running WU).
A big improvement.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Lunatics apps for CPU are not the same as stock.
Only GPU apps.

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1) Stock CPU app has embedded benchmark that selects best available processing codelets for particular host. Among those codelets SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and AVX ones.
2) Lunatics CPU build pre-tuned for particular available SSE level. So SSE3 for example has no AVX codelets.
3) For tested hardware Lunatics build of corresponding SIMD level was faster than stock binary with one exclusion - SSE.

Raistmer - thanks for the info

3) For tested hardware Lunatics build of corresponding SIMD level was faster than stock binary with one exclusion - SSE.

Any rough idea how much faster for AVX CPUs like i7-4790k, i7-4820?
(i.e., 10% 25%)?

T

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Thanks, @Raistmer. That info is very helpful for me. I will definitely go the new Lunatics after I figure out whether to HT or not and experiment a bit with the no_gpus in app_config.xml.

Probably in a couple of weeks or so.

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