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Message 1549 - Posted: 21 Aug 2013, 10:41:50 UTC
There are new SSE2 optimized versions released for 32bit and 64bit linux and Windows.

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Message 1550 - Posted: 21 Aug 2013, 11:38:26 UTC
On i7-2600K SSE2 is the same that SSE3.
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Message 1551 - Posted: 21 Aug 2013, 12:34:46 UTC - in response to Message 1550.  

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There is a differrence in 2 or 3 basic instructions, which are replaced by couple of sse2 instructions. SSE2 version has some small improvements than older SSE3.
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Message 1552 - Posted: 21 Aug 2013, 17:10:50 UTC
So is the SSE2 faster than SSE3 or is it for older computers?
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Message 1553 - Posted: 21 Aug 2013, 17:43:00 UTC - in response to Message 1552.  
So is the SSE2 faster than SSE3


usually this will not be the case because some design-flaws in SSE2 (which affect performance) were fixed with SSE3.


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Message 1568 - Posted: 24 Aug 2013, 0:56:51 UTC
Is AVX being planned? I have quite a few cpu's which support it... :)
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Message 1569 - Posted: 24 Aug 2013, 5:20:42 UTC - in response to Message 1568.  
Is AVX being planned? I have quite a few cpu's which support it... :)


I saw a reply by HA SOFT that said it was actually slower than the SSE3 app.

There was also discussion of AVX2 support which *should* be faster again, but they have yet to build such an app.
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Message 1570 - Posted: 24 Aug 2013, 9:50:41 UTC - in response to Message 1568.  

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Is AVX being planned? I have quite a few cpu's which support it... :)


Meanwhile, my company has bought one Intel Haswell PC with i5-4670 for testing. AVX version is better on this cpu. All other CPUs than Haswell perform better with SSE3. You can look on beta version times here:

http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/results.php?hostid=45724&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid=

It's pure AVX version (no AVX2 instruction). App is finished and Kyong is testing it now.

The problem is a detection on boinc server side. Kyong is discussing this with boinc development. AVX needs CPU and OS support (linux kernel 2.6.30+ and win7SP1+).
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