Why does MW send 32-bit apps to a 64-bit machine?
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Why does MW send 32-bit apps to a 64-bit machine?
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Send message Joined: 3 Nov 10 Posts: 3 Credit: 115,198 RAC: 0  
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I've been crunching for SETI for some time, now I changed to MW. I have a 64-Bit machine (Intel i5) and I was running 64-bit MW applications. Today I detached from the project and attached again and the client downloaded 32-bit applications for MilkyWay! Mi 17 Nov 2010 22:09:41 CET Milkyway@home Finished download of milkyway_0.44_i686-pc-linux-gnu__sse2 Mi 17 Nov 2010 22:00:33 CET Milkyway@home Finished download of milkyway_nbody_0.21_i686-pc-linux-gnu__sse2 I know there are 64-bit files for Milkyway available, so why do I get the 32-bit apps? |
 dnolan Send message Joined: 26 Oct 09 Posts: 55 Credit: 352,166,802 RAC: 0  
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Send message Joined: 8 May 10 Posts: 576 Credit: 15,979,383 RAC: 0  |
No, that only applies for Windows. Currently there are 32/64 Linux, 64 OS X, and a 32 bit Windows which pretends to be x86_64. There however are sse2 versions for the 32 bit ones, so that gets most of the advantage of 64 bit binaries over plain 32 bit binaries. There will be a 64 bit Windows build if / when I ever get around to it. |
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Send message Joined: 8 May 10 Posts: 576 Credit: 15,979,383 RAC: 0 |
On my 64 bit Linux I do get sent the 64 applications. |
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Send message Joined: 3 Nov 10 Posts: 3 Credit: 115,198 RAC: 0
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Well I don't and I can't understand why - and I don't know what I can do about it. Could I simply download the 64-Bit executables and replace the 32-Bit ones? |
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