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Message 43934 - Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 22:52:58 UTC

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?
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Message 43937 - Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 23:28:19 UTC

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Message 43938 - Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 23:32:21 UTC - in response to Message 43937.  

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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Message 43939 - Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 23:35:17 UTC - in response to Message 43938.  

On my 64 bit Linux I do get sent the 64 applications.
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Message 43942 - Posted: 18 Nov 2010, 2:51:02 UTC

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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