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    POEM@home News

    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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    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
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 12-28-2012 at 01:09 AM.


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    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 )

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

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    Ha ha. Sep 19 clearly isn't enough :D
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    It was just a mere attempt at early modern English laddies, do not be offendeth.....

    BTW: What happens/happened on September 19th?


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


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    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
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