has anyone noticed how boinc sometimes gets confused on processor type
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has anyone noticed how boinc sometimes gets confused on processor type
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 Fil Send message Joined: 14 Sep 99 Posts: 6 Credit: 56,469 RAC: 0 
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Example: AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2200+ Pentium what's a amd athlon pentium?? ID: 1869 ·  |
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MPBroida Send message Joined: 6 Sep 00 Posts: 337 Credit: 16,433 RAC: 0
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I think BOINC just grabs the same processor string that you can see if you go to your "My Computer" icon, right-click, and select "Properties". The first tab there shows the processor type Windows -thinks- you have near the bottom. If Windows thinks you have an "AMD Athlon Pentium", that's what it will tell BOINC. Check those properties and see what it really says there. ID: 1957 · |
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Benher Send message Joined: 25 Jul 99 Posts: 517 Credit: 465,152 RAC: 0
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I was curious about this myself, so I downloaded the source code. After a bit of searching and guessing which module contained the "CPU identify" code, I found MPBroida is exactly correct. On Windows systems the code calls a built in function of the O/S to get a string. ID: 2064 · |
Keck_Komputers  Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 1575 Credit: 4,152,111 RAC: 1
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The answers in this thread are mostly correct. There is one point that is missing though. The athlon processors run the same pentium instruction set. I would expect in the future that intel processors will say something like intel-64, A64. Since the A64 instruction set is the one that windows will recognize. John Keck testing BOINC since 2002/12/08 ID: 2078 · |
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