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[AMDave]

SSE2 Requirement for Windows Clients
Since our recent release last week, POEM++ requires a SSE2 capable PC.Sorry for not mentioning that before.

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[Dirk Broer]

Sounds alarming, but actually SSE2 (aka Streaming SIMD Extensions 2), was included from:

• AMD K8-based CPUs (Athlon 64, Sempron 64, Turion 64, etc.)
• AMD Phenom CPUs
• Intel NetBurst-based CPUs (Pentium 4, Xeon, Celeron, Celeron D, etc.)
• Intel Pentium M and Celeron M
• Intel Core family (including Intel Core 2, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7)
• Intel Atom
• Transmeta Efficeon
• VIA C7
• VIA Nano

In practice 99% of the PCs that are running BOINC/Distributed computing projects.
What CPU's are meant?

• AMD CPUs prior to Athlon 64, including all Socket A-based CPUs
• Intel CPUs prior to Pentium 4
• VIA C3
• Transmeta Crusoe

[NeoGen]

I guess if someone has a CPU older than those in the list above by Dirk, the best advice is really to "Get a new computer!" (My default answer for 2013 )

[Dirk Broer]

hear, hear,

To all ye who art still workinge with 8086, 8088, 80286, 80386 or 80486 CPUs,
them Intel Pentiums with a number below 4 or AMD chips before ye trusted Athlon 64,
and ye who is still workinge with ye olde Motorola, IBM Power4 or lower, I would say

"Get a new computer!"

Goeth towarth ye olde compute shoppe and buyeth yerself something better and/or more efficient.

hear, hear, ...

[vaughan]

I didn't know it was "talk like a Pirate day" me hearties, aye

[AMDave]

Ha ha. Sep 19 clearly isn't enough :D

[Dirk Broer]

It was just a mere attempt at early modern English laddies, do not be offendeth.....

BTW: What happens/happened on September 19th?

[AMDave]

That's "International Talk Like a Pirate" day ... the day we say Arrrrr! all over the world. Since 1995,
http://www.talklikeapirateday.com
http://www.talklikeapirateday.org
http://www.yaaarrr.com
http://www.yarr.org.uk
http://www.facebook.com/InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay
etc.

example: http://www.amdusers.com/forum/showth...ht=talk+pirate

and "If you use Google, switch the language settings to "Pirate" for fun."
IIRC Facebook also has a Pirate language setting. (I don't partake in Fb)

[Dirk Broer]

Ye all needth a good CPU /a darn farm of them/ for coming challenge, as them GPU WUs are awfully short at the moment

[AMDave]

yeah I noticed that too. a lot of waiting for GPU WUs.
I read that the new server arrived and everyone was hoping for relief from the WuGen shortage, but there was a problem with the RAID hardware or some such so it is still offline
Not good timing for the contest.
so I switched back to another project for now.
will do some poem later when server is fixed.

"Ye all needth" - lol