| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Retired Forums
Forum: UD Windows Agent Support [Read Only]
Thread: 64 Bit Agent |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 7
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Since there are more and more 64 bit capable processors and operating systems now available, has anyone looked into supporting a 64 bit Agent for both Windows and Linux ?
 |
|||
|
||||
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It hasn't happened yet, but can always be run in the WOW64 partition.
----------------------------------------(windows32-on-windows64) of 64 bit Windows XP Operating System. If you have a 64 bit system that is running a 32 bit OS, no changes are required. A 64 bit agent is probably low on the priority list. [Edit 3 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 7, 2005 3:10:29 PM] |
||
|
|
rit-its
Cruncher Joined: Mar 1, 2005 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline |
i have been running the 32 bit agent on Windows 64 bit edition for quite some time. While i dont know how to change the cpu throttle, it seems as though its smart enough to figure out that even though my CPU is hyperthreaded, running both "processors" at 100 percent is slower than running each "processor" at 50%
|
||
|
|
Coolbox
Cruncher Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Do you know if it would finish the calculations faster if it suported the 64 bit processors
If so it would be a good idea to make the update and thereby get more units finished faster.  I would like to finish the units faster than I do now...and I use a 64 bit processor. |
||
|
|
Viktors
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Post Count: 653 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
For the current projects, using 64 bit mode would not make a substantial difference.
|
||
|
|
Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Do you know if it would finish the calculations faster if it suported the 64 bit processors 64-bit processors give you advantages in 3 areas: 1. Doing extrememely large or precise math (64 bit integers and floats) 2. Accessing very large amounts of memory. 3. Ability to move more data per clock cycle. Of the 3, only #3 would give these projects an advantage. These are just generic advantages. There are likely other speed advantages for specific chips, e.g. the AMD 64. Due to limitations of the UD platform we are not able to provide different executables optimized for different processors. I too run a 64-bit processor (AMD 64 3000+), but unless you run a 64-bit operating system, you can't run a 64-bit program anyway. As 64-bit chips become more mainstream, you never know though. Maybe someday.
Rick Alther
Former World Community Grid Developer |
||
|
|
Coolbox
Cruncher Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Thanks for the answer ;-)
|
||
|
|
|