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发表于 2008-3-10 10:01:03
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March 08, 2008
New Windows client/core development (SMP and classic clients)
The Windows SMP client is a pretty important new client for us for two reasons. First, multi-core CPUs are becoming more and more common, and second, Windows clients are the most common in FAH by far. The SMP client appears to be working quite well on linux and OSX, and this is due to the fact that these machines are unix-based, and so multicore libraries (eg MPI) are much more robust on these platforms. The issues we've been seeing on Windows can be directly attributed to MPI issues. We're the first distributed computing platform to roll out MPI calculations (typically reserved for supercomputers), so we are dealing with some major growing pains issues there.
To help fix this, Peter Kasson has been working hard on a new approach to improve the Windows SMP core stability. The trick was to use an improved MPI library. So far, it looks like it is indeed a significant improvement, but we're still testing it to be sure. If the Windows SMP core is not working well for you, we hope that the new fixes will help.
For now, if the SMP client isn't working well for you, one can always run multiple regular Windows clients and still make major contributions to FAH (and lots of extra points than a single client!). You can see more info on our Windows console FAQ.
Finally, we're working to reintegrate and revamp our Windows clients in general. We've revamped the graphics, made it much more stable (and better looking), and we've set up a single client to serve as both regular and SMP clients (with GPU functionality on the way). We're excited about these new developments and donors will be seeing these advances in the next few weeks, if all goes well in our beta tests.
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新版Windows客户端开发进展
我们改进了Windows SMP版的MPI库文件，以提高Windows版客户端的稳定性和速度。
同时我们也在改进标准版客户端。我们已经改进了图形界面，使其更稳定（也更漂亮）。我们还做了一个标准+SMP整合版客户端（将来会把GPU也加进来），如果一切顺利，几周内就会发布公测版。 |
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