Vijay Pande quote from here:
"We are now testing the SMP client with Folding@Home beta testers (beta testers can find more information in the beta testing forum). The SMP client supports OSX/Intel natively (which means a major points boost for OSX donors) as well as 64-bit linux (with 32-bit linux hopefully to come soon). Windows support will come much later, as this is a very different architecture for porting than OSX & Linux."
Another quote from same thread:
"AMD 64 bit CPUs will work fine, although right now C2D has a bit of a speed advantage as it can do SSE 2x as fast as an Opteron. When Barcelona comes out, this will be evened out and I expect that dual-socket Barcelona (8 cores total) will blow away Cloverton in 8-way jobs (but we'll have to wait and see). "
This client will only run WUs made for it. They will get better points per day than running four regular clients on a 4-way system.
This will reduce protein project run time from years to months!
"We are now testing the SMP client with Folding@Home beta testers (beta testers can find more information in the beta testing forum). The SMP client supports OSX/Intel natively (which means a major points boost for OSX donors) as well as 64-bit linux (with 32-bit linux hopefully to come soon). Windows support will come much later, as this is a very different architecture for porting than OSX & Linux."
Another quote from same thread:
"AMD 64 bit CPUs will work fine, although right now C2D has a bit of a speed advantage as it can do SSE 2x as fast as an Opteron. When Barcelona comes out, this will be evened out and I expect that dual-socket Barcelona (8 cores total) will blow away Cloverton in 8-way jobs (but we'll have to wait and see). "
This client will only run WUs made for it. They will get better points per day than running four regular clients on a 4-way system.
This will reduce protein project run time from years to months!