Msattler has done it - for many months now, he has achieved the fastest per-core WU analysis speeds.

This is not a trivial accomplishment. Hyperthreading won't help, more cores won't help, faster networking doesn't help, tricky BOINC compiles don't help. I'm talking about the raw power of one processor core working on a WU. Over and over.

I've compared lots of top computers here. I've tried to beat him on a per-core basis. My best computer running perfectly is still 10% slower per core per WU in an apples-to-apples comparison.

Near-future processors look like they will not beat this per-core speed. Technology is leaning towards more cores or more threads per die, so the msattler raw core power record might stand for a long time.

Congratulations to msattler who has found that bleeding edge.

Thank you for noticing.........
The Frozen Penny should start to advance a bit in the top computers over the weekend......it has just 4 AP WUs left to process from the batch that I downloaded for testing purposes.........and boy, are they dogs in terms of credit/cpu second........even though the Penny can turn them over in about 10 hours.....they do not come close to comparing what it can do with optimized MB work.........
I expect it back in the 8000 to 8200 RAC range within a few days........

And yeah, this is a '4 core rig'.....and I am proud of that......

Thank you again.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

:: Boredom Start::

Here's a few records concerning CPU's on SETI@home, all info from BoincStats:

CPU Abundance

Most Common CPU (All-Time):
1. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00Ghz 130,148 CPU's
2. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80Ghz 107,075 CPU's
3. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40Ghz 71,191 CPU's

Most Common CPU (Intel):
1. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00Ghz 130,148 CPU's
2. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80Ghz 107,075 CPU's
3. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40Ghz 71,191 CPU's

Most Common CPU (AMD):
1. AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ 37,489 CPU's
2. AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 36,618 CPU's
3. AMD Athlon Processor 33,122 CPU's

Most Rare CPU:
1. Advanced Micro DevicesAMD Athlon XP 1800+ 2 CPU's

Credit

Most Total Credited CPU (All-Time):
1. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00Ghz 2,747,317,449 Credits
2. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80Ghz 1,752,131,378 Credits
3. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40Ghz 1,589,907,326 Credits

Most Total Credited CPU (Intel):
1. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00Ghz 2,747,317,449 Credits
2. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80Ghz 1,752,131,378 Credits
3. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40Ghz 1,589,907,326 Credits

Most Total Credited CPU (AMD):
1. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 487,639,580 Credits
2. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 436,419,362 Credits
3. AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 401,748,472 Credits

Least Total Credited CPU:
1. Intelx86 Family 6 Model 3 Stepping 4 3200MHz 0.05 Credits
2. M II x86 Family 6 Model 0 Stepping 0 0.10 Credits
3. SUNW,Sun-Blade-T6320sparcv9 5.57 Credits

Average Credit

Largest Average Credit (All-Time):
1. Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 6,096,146 RAC
2. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz 1,789,614 RAC
3. Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz 1,559,948 RAC

Largest Average Credit (Intel):
1. Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 6,096,146 RAC
2. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz 1,789,614 RAC
3. Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz 1,559,948 RAC

Largest Average Credit (AMD):
1. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 502,090 RAC
2. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 468,040 RAC
3. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 325,951 RAC

Smallest Average Credit:
1. Shared Amongst 407 Different CPU types 0.00 RAC

Credit per CPU

Highest Credit per CPU (All-Time):
1. Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ LOL 1,850,630 Credits
2. Intel Xeon CPU E7220 @ 2.93GHz 457,261 Credits
3. Genuine Intel CPU 000 @ 3.20GHz 423,718 Credits

Highest Credit per CPU (Intel):
1. Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ LOL 1,850,630 Credits
2. Intel Xeon CPU E7220 @ 2.93GHz 457,261 Credits
3. Genuine Intel CPU 000 @ 3.20GHz 423,718 Credits

Highest Credit per CPU (AMD):
1. AMD Athlon/Opteron CPU-model unknown08 414,566 Credits
2. AMD Athlon/Opteron CPU-model unknown 247,917 Credits
3. Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8347 169,605 Credits

Lowest Credit per CPU:
1. Intelx86 Family 6 Model 3 Stepping 4 3200MHz 0.03 Credits
2. M II x86 Family 6 Model 0 Stepping 0 0.05 Credits
3. SUNW,Sun-Blade-T6320sparcv9 2.79 Credits

Average Credit per CPU

Highest Average Credit per CPU (All-Time):
1. Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ LOL 4,371 RAC
2. Genuine Intel(R) CPU 000 @ 3.20GHz 2,825 RAC
3. Intelunknown 1,895 RAC

Highest Average Credit per CPU (Intel):
1. Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ LOL 4,371 RAC
2. Genuine Intel(R) CPU 000 @ 3.20GHz 2,825 RAC
3. Intelunknown 1,895 RAC

Highest Average Credit per CPU (AMD):
1. Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8347 1,027 RAC
2. Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 1356 746 RAC
3. Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2352 728 RAC

Lowest Average Credit per CPU:
1. Shared Amongst 495 Different CPU Types 0.00 RAC

Average Credit per CPU Second

Best Average Credit per CPU (All-Time):
1. Intel (686-class) 0.018981
2. Intel(R) Core(tm)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ LOL 0.013889
3. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3360 @ 2.83GHz 0.013254

Best Average Credit per CPU Second (Intel):
1. Intel (686-class) 0.018981
2. Intel(R) Core(tm)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ LOL 0.013889
3. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3360 @ 2.83GHz 0.013254

Best Average Credit per CPU Second (AMD):
1. Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8214 HE 0.005735
2. Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2224 SE 0.005674
3. AMD Phenom X4 Quad-Core Processor GP-9730 0.005387

Worst Average Credit per CPU Second:
1. Intelx86 Family 15 Model 75 Stepping 2 2200MHz 0.000000
2. Intelx86 Family 6 Model 0 Stepping 0 1000MHz 0.000000
3. Intelx86 Family 6 Model 107 Stepping 1 2835MHz 0.000000

Honorable Mentions, Weird CPU Types, etc. etc.

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ LOL
I have a feeling that is Mark's doing...

Hewlett-Packardia64
HP produces CPU's?!

i86pcamd64
Life is Random.

*No Name*
I'm not joking! There are 834 of these things with absolutely no name!

Intel
Slightly more descriptive than before...

Silicon Graphics, Inc.IP27
Any one heard of them?

AMD Athlon(tm) Prosussor
Google returns 1,370 results...

AMD Engineering Sample
Fresh out of the oven!

Intel00/0b
Huh?

Power Macintosh????
This is why I don't like Apple...

AMD]6.Š�jŽÃS2ÛfQèêFÿèº2
Care to explain?

AMD¾
Still 3 Quarters as good!

Hope it isn't too big of a post.

::Boredom End::

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- Luke.

Have I ever shown you my Brambleweeny 2000?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Have I ever shown you my Brambleweeny 2000?

I remember sometime back where you changed your processor name... but apart from that No.

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- Luke.

Check this out....The Frozen Brambleweeny 2000...

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Check this out....The Frozen Brambleweeny 2000...

LOL! That's awesome, howdya do that?

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- Luke.

Check this out....The Frozen Brambleweeny 2000...

LOL! That's awesome, howdya do that?

Just a little careful regedit.........
It only lasts until the next reboot, then returns to the real data.......

I can direct you there if you wanna play.......but be very CAREFUL what you wish for......LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Check this out....The Frozen Brambleweeny 2000...

LOL! That's awesome, howdya do that?

Just a little careful regedit.........
It only lasts until the next reboot, then returns to the real data.......

I can direct you there if you wanna play.......but be very CAREFUL what you wish for......LOL.

LOL. I can only say "Beam me up."

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- Luke.

Check this out....The Frozen Brambleweeny 2000...

LOL! That's awesome, howdya do that?

Just a little careful regedit.........
It only lasts until the next reboot, then returns to the real data.......

I can direct you there if you wanna play.......but be very CAREFUL what you wish for......LOL.

LOL. I can only say "Beam me up."

OK dude.........regedit away.......

The path is......
And I am a little trashed, so don't take every bit literally.......

My computer
hkey local machine
hardware
acpi
description
system
bios
central processor
0

See.....you have to drill down a bit to get to it.......

Pleeeeeeeez.......I don't wanna see any reports here of folks playing with things that they do not understand and f'ing their rigs up.

Do NOT play with regedit if you do not understand what you are modifying.......
It CAN and WILL make your system unbootable if you screw with the wrong parameters...........

OK???

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

You rock as always, Mark! :)

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Check this out....The Frozen Brambleweeny 2000...

LOL! That's awesome, howdya do that?

Just a little careful regedit.........
It only lasts until the next reboot, then returns to the real data.......

I can direct you there if you wanna play.......but be very CAREFUL what you wish for......LOL.

LOL. I can only say "Beam me up."

OK dude.........regedit away.......

The path is......
And I am a little trashed, so don't take every bit literally.......

My computer
hkey local machine
hardware
acpi
description
system
bios
central processor
0

See.....you have to drill down a bit to get to it.......

Pleeeeeeeez.......I don't wanna see any reports here of folks playing with things that they do not understand and f'ing their rigs up.

Do NOT play with regedit if you do not understand what you are modifying.......
It CAN and WILL make your system unbootable if you screw with the wrong parameters...........

OK???

I'll have a look at it later, I won't touch it yet... thanks again!

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- Luke.

You rock as always, Mark! :)

Just be very careful what you wish for......LOL.

Gonna see a lotta Bramblweeny's in the stats now.....LOL.

That was our dearly missed Lunatics master's joke.......
I have to give credit to Simon, wherever he has gone.

The master of the Chicken coop is still missed, I still have hope that someday we shall know what happened to him.

Simon.......if you ever read this, you are still thought of........fondly.

And if anybody in the Seti world has a clue to where he went, it would still be appreciated by all if we just knew he was OK......
No matter what the circumstances.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

almost to 700K. i'm tring to make it by 1 nov.

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The Brambleweeny lives on........LOL.

Another couple of hours, and the AP work is behind me........

Watch the Penny run..........7977 and counting......up.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

LOL......8039.......no more AP for the kitties........all done now.

Watch the Penny crunch some real MB work now.......
8200 by Sunday?
Any bets?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Hmmm, sounds like I'd better pull my finger out and get a 64 bit version b up for testing,... not much, but would a 5% boost to VLAR be helpful ?

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

LOL......8039.......no more AP for the kitties........all done now.

Watch the Penny crunch some real MB work now.......
8200 by Sunday?
Any bets?

Whats the Penny Crunching At? 4Ghz?

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- Luke.

Hmmm, sounds like I'd better pull my finger out and get a 64 bit version b up for testing,... not much, but would a 5% boost to VLAR be helpful ?

LOL......you are talking MB here, right?

Bring it on..............
I can't get any more boost from RAM or FSB.......4400 is where it's at.......
So I rely on you, my Lunatic friends......

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

LOL......8039.......no more AP for the kitties........all done now.

Watch the Penny crunch some real MB work now.......
8200 by Sunday?
Any bets?

Whats the Penny Crunching At? 4Ghz?

4.4 giggle hertz........at -32c.....
The Brambleweeny is just screamin'.....or did you miss that bit?

The Genuine Stats... As NS knows them........

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

4.4 giggle hertz........at -32c.....
The Brambleweeny is just screamin'.....or did you miss that bit?

Oh yes, I saw that, and went and bought one for my dog today. 2.75 Kilograms of miscellaneous meat for his dining pleasure. Unfortunately I don't seem to have a suitable optimisation reference manual for that one, but I'll see if I can get some 64 bit ssse3x done late tonight :D

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.