New FAHCore79.exe [Archive] - Overclockers Forums

Arkaine23

03-11-04, 04:29 PM

New core that does SSE2 for certain gromacs projects and SSE2-capable cpu's.

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=7233

Tismedt

03-11-04, 05:00 PM

Cool!!! So what cpu's besides a64 and P4 support sse2?

Fever

03-11-04, 06:24 PM

Hrm, SSE2 eh? A64 just got more interesting.

Anyone remember Stanford's "Matrix-ish" moviem talking about the new core with a hidden SSE2 message? It's aout time.:rolleyes: How long ago was that? Atleast 8 months I think.

Originally posted by Tismedt
Cool!!! So what cpu's besides a64 and P4 support sse2?

Only their varients, like Athlon FX, P4 Xeon, etc..

Sterculus

03-11-04, 10:47 PM

Hmmm....someone make an A64 farm :p

Leviathan41

03-11-04, 11:42 PM

Originally posted by Sterculus
Hmmm....someone make an A64 farm :p

I'll get right on that. . . . just paypal me the money. :p

Xenocide

03-12-04, 06:21 PM

hmm.. ive yet to get this core but ill keep an eye out for it

jcrox

03-12-04, 06:57 PM

This would be nice for my dual xeon P4 setup! too bad i havent seen it yet. :(

Arkaine23

03-12-04, 07:00 PM

Originally posted by Sterculus
Hmmm....someone make an A64 farm :p

I've got four 244 opterons folding now... not really a farm, but its a start. I'm looking for the new core, but haven't gotten it yet.

I'm 99.999999% sure SSE2 will improve the precision of the calculations, not the performance.

nikhsub1

03-12-04, 07:02 PM

I've done one :D I have no idea what machine did it, but i'd bet it is the one set up for beta...

Arkaine23

03-12-04, 07:04 PM

Yeah, I think it is only available for beta unless you download it (and get the wu that uses it and have the appropriate CPU). It should go public soon enough. Sadly, I can't risk doing beta folding on my production opteron servers. :(

nikhsub1

03-12-04, 07:15 PM

Originally posted by Arkaine23
Sadly, I can't risk doing beta folding on my production opteron servers. :(
I hear ya. I only run beta (rarely that it is) on my OWN machines.

Audioaficionado

03-12-04, 07:26 PM

Kewel :cool:

By next month when I have dual Xeons and an HT P4 up and folding, maybe I can try some out.

KrisMCool

03-12-04, 07:31 PM

I don't think it's beta-only. I've had one of these WUs already (p930_fkbound_102 using FahCore_79) and I'm not set up to run beta's.

Audioaficionado

03-12-04, 07:34 PM

They're going mainstream soon as the newer proteins need the higher precision the FahCore_79 and SSE2 provide.