Finished 2 WUs on MacOS 10.6.2 (64b) @ 2.1Ghz in 1.29 and 1.34 hours

Amazing speed up!!111

I expect the calculation refinements depend on CPU architecture and CPU speed, unless they have found a RAM bottleneck, so expect a spread of different task completion times for different CPUs, and different improvement factors from the present tasks.

Some CPUs are very different to others not just in the speed, but in overall core design (number of transistors and technology). This is why most CPUs are slightly better at crunching some tasks than other tasks; they exploit different mathematical pathways of the CPU.

Below, the core speeds do not in themselves account for all of the 45min extra time on the lesser CPU. The better design of the Q6600 accounts for about 14min improvement (about 33% of the speed). There are of course much better CPU designs than the 3year old Q6600, as well as supporting architectures

Two Valid, one in Progress:
BETA_ X0000090850189200708162327_ 0-- Valid 23/03/10 15:11:52 24/03/10 01:05:31 3.20 41.3 / 51.8 (Native Pent Dual Core, 2GHz, Win XP x86)
BETA_ X0000076080540200610061618_ 1-- Valid 24/03/10 01:33:25 24/03/10 10:13:43 2.35 35.8 / 40.2 (Native Q6600, 2.4GHz, Windows x86)

Well done,

just completed 3 and are valid on my quad 9550 w7 64b
1.82.1.85 1.86

Atom N270 HT enabled

BETA_ X0000090990560200708021525_ 1-- laNina Valid 23/03/10 21:32:25 24/03/10 15:05:32 16.06 71.0 / 41.6

Just a simple switch if it goes live.

We are sending some more results to the researchers now for them to inspect.

Also, the average runtime of the beta was 2 hours, the average on the old binary was 5.5 hours. So far good indications :)

-Uplinger