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There's some news on the SMP client front. First, we've moved our OSX and Linux clients to a non-beta designation, reflecting the maturity of those clients. We expect those clients to run reasonably well. The Windows/SMP client is not there yet, but we have been continuing to work on it and improve it.

 

Right now, we are making available two Win/SMP clients. The primary one (6.22) is on our download page ( http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther ). People have reported issues with 6.22, so we have made 5.91/5.92 available with an extended expiration as well ( http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4369 ).

 

With

the public beta release of the v6.22 SMP client, we encourage all our

beta users to upgrade to that client. However, since the 5.91/5.92 beta

expiration date is rapidly approaching, we have decided to extend those

clients to allow users more time to upgrade (and to give us a little

more time to work out the issues that invariably come up during public

beta testing).

 

It's worth reminding people that these Windows/SMP clients are still very experimental, hence the reason for the expiration and extra points one gets. If you would like a "set it and forget it" client, this client is not for you (please check out our classic client in that case), and one should expect that the Win/SMP client will take a lot of extra work to run. See the discussion at the top of our download page ( http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther ) and SMP FAQ for more details.

 

We're working to improve the Win/SMP client and get it released non-beta like the OSX and Linux clients and hopefully we'll get there soon. An important part of this open beta is the beta testing reports we've gotten from people. Please post them in our forum (http://foldingforum.org).

 

PS Here's the info from our download page on the nature of these clients

 

High Performance clients.
In addition to the

clients that run in the background on typical computers, we also offer

high performance clients, such as the GPU and SMP clients. These

clients use more system resources, but are also much more productive.

Please consider the use of these clients carefully. See the respective

GPU, GPU2, SMP, and PS3 FAQs for more information.

 

 

Beta clients.
We often release

clients early for donors to beta test. These beta versions likely have

some rough edges, but we expect that they should work reasonably well

for all donors. See the respective installation instructions for more

details of known bugs for each of the beta versions.

 

 

As in the use of any beta software, please

make sure to back up your hard drive before installing. DO NOT not run

a beta client if you or your machines cannot tolerate even the

slightest instability or problems. Beta clients and servers performance

may vary significantly from standard FAH clients during the development

process, including but not limited to work unit shortages, server

downtime for upgrades, short notice for client upgrades, and Points Per

Day that differs a little or a lot from the developmental benchmark

level.

 

 

Finally, note that while the points per day for these

clients are higher than the classic client, they can require a lot more

maintenance due to their experimental or beta nature. If you would

prefer to have a client which runs as smoothly as possible, we suggest

you run our main client, not a high performance client. If you run a

high performance client, expect a much more complex experience and much

more work to keep the client running (which is compensated by extra

points per day).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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