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by petrusbroder
Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:31 am
Forum: 3rd party contributed software
Topic: Is SMP Affinity Changer Safe?
Replies: 24
Views: 10417

Re: SMP Affinity Changer

Perhaps a better approach would be for you and your Ukrainian co-worker to write them and ask for clarification? Have you tried? Not yet. This program came to my attention yesterday, and I have no off-hours contact information for her. Nor any contact info for the developer in the Ukraine. -jim The...
by petrusbroder
Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:01 pm
Forum: 3rd party contributed software
Topic: Is SMP Affinity Changer Safe?
Replies: 24
Views: 10417

Re: SMP Affinity Changer

caferace wrote:Actually, the application IS already open source according to Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/fah-smp-affinity-changer/

Yet the source is not posted. That's a very strange (and totally non-GPL) way of doing things. :roll:

-jim
Hi Jim,
Yes, I agree, very strange. And that makes me think.
by petrusbroder
Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm
Forum: 3rd party contributed software
Topic: Is SMP Affinity Changer Safe?
Replies: 24
Views: 10417

Re: Re:

If it is a legit program and if the creators of that program really want to contribute to the scientific purpose of Folding @Home, then they would be interested in the use of the program by all interested. Then it would be very natural to publish the source code or to open it (e.g. with a open sour...
by petrusbroder
Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:47 pm
Forum: 3rd party contributed software
Topic: Is SMP Affinity Changer Safe?
Replies: 24
Views: 10417

Re: SMP Affinity Changer

. how many people have payed for a license of a M$ O.S. ? Have you got the source code of that ? Have you installed it on your systems without question, or have you written to Bill Gates demanding the Source Code before you 're going to pay for a license for one of his products ??? . Question 1: Pr...
by petrusbroder
Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:37 pm
Forum: 3rd party contributed software
Topic: Is SMP Affinity Changer Safe?
Replies: 24
Views: 10417

Re:

Utility for automatical assigning of affinities for SMP folding cores. It works as a service and assigns affinities every 10 mins if needed. Generally this gives up to 10% PPD, which is like up to 1000 additional points for Intel Quad processors. 1.0.3 version is available here: http://distributed....