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Message 3073 - Posted: 4 Feb 2023, 22:59:23 UTC

I have recently restartet contact with this project.
I have downloaded -
SSE2
AVX
FMA
They are equally slow.
What is the point with all these different versions ?
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Message 3074 - Posted: 4 Feb 2023, 23:44:39 UTC - in response to Message 3073.

AVX/FMA do provide a small increase over SSE2.
Switching to Linux provides a far larger increase in speed.
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Message 3075 - Posted: 5 Feb 2023, 11:49:57 UTC - in response to Message 3073.

I have recently restartet contact with this project.
I have downloaded -
SSE2
AVX
FMA
They are equally slow.
What is the point with all these different versions ?


When you first start running tasks with a new app the system will send each of the variants to you and monitor which runs the fastest on your system. It will then send you just that variant (occasionally slipping in the odd one to make sure your system hasn’t changed).

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Message 3076 - Posted: 6 Feb 2023, 1:13:53 UTC - in response to Message 3073.

You can try to set "use at most 50% of the CPUs" in BOINC manager (options -> Computing preferences) to halve your runtimes.
Furthermore I suggest you to put another 8GB RAM in your laptop.

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Message 3085 - Posted: 21 Feb 2023, 0:35:52 UTC - in response to Message 3075.

It seems I did not explain clearly from my windows environment.
The 3 versions need the same amount of time on my processors.
I continue to be sent all 3.
It looks liked there is no justifikation for the 3 variants - SSE2 is not siognificantly slower here than the others.
It is clear that the developers have difficulty using the advantages of newer instructions in their application.
I'm just a mainframe programmer - there must be thousands out there who can optimise for windoze - it's "open" for everyone !

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Message 3188 - Posted: 22 May 2023, 19:42:24 UTC

SSE is the most energy efficient.

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Message 3191 - Posted: 22 May 2023, 21:33:10 UTC - in response to Message 3188.

Theoretically AVX2+FMA should be most energy efficient

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Message 3203 - Posted: 23 May 2023, 13:14:28 UTC - in response to Message 3191.

Theoretically AVX2+FMA should be most energy efficient

Can you cite the research that proves that claim?

Here's why I say SSE is the most energy efficient:
Thermal design power and vectorized instructions behavior, Amina Guermouche & Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CONCURRENCY & COMPUTATION: PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, Feb 2021.
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03185821/document
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