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XS_olympic
Cruncher Joined: Sep 20, 2007 Post Count: 19 Status: Offline |
I'm upgrading one of my machines from Windows XP x86 to Windows Server 2003 x64. Since I had 3 days worth of work queued up, I saved the BOINC directory to a flash drive and intend to transfer it back to the machine after the new OS is installed. Of course I would download and install the 64 bit BOINC client.
My question is, will this work? Are the same work units sent out to 32 bit and 64 bit OS's? I don't mind if the WU's that were in progress error out or are invalid but if the rest are doomed to fail I might as well start fresh. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi XS_olympic,
Give it a try. Unless knreed or somebody contradicts me. I think that 64-bit Windows gets 32-bit Windows work units which are not put into a separate bin. Lawrence |
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XS_olympic
Cruncher Joined: Sep 20, 2007 Post Count: 19 Status: Offline |
Well, the machine is up and running with x64 but I was not able to transfer the BOINC installation from x86. BOINC would not start up citing some sort of initialization error. I cleaned everything out and installed a fresh copy of BOINC and it seems to be working perfectly.
Benchmarks are remarkable, there was a slight reduction in Whetstone but Dhrystone increased 2500 points! Before: 3150/7000, After 3050/9500!  This is an Intel Q6600 running at 3.2GHz. Now I just have to wait and see if it actually crunches faster. Points claimed vs awarded should indicate the accuracy of the benchmark. |
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Former Member
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Hello XS_olympic,
Before: 3150/7000, After 3050/9500! That is a surprising difference. I would not have predicted the big increase in Dhrystone benchmarks.Thanks for posting your figures. Lawrence |
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