In Boinc 5.4.x both the cpu manufacturer (shown bold below) and cpu model name (shown italic) were reported to the project and showed up as two lines of information.

With Boinc 5.8.11 in addition to cpu manufacturer and model name the client also reported the cpuid flags in square brackets (shown underlined below). I had heard about a need to be able to distinguish processors by capability so this was not a big surprise to see.

However with Boinc 5.8.15 (the most recent release of the Boinc client for all platforms) the client now only reports the cpu manufacturer, not even the cpu model name.

Does anybody know the reason for this change ?

2 examples from 5.8.11:

AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy

GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

Same 2 examples from 5.8.15:

AuthenticAMD

GenuineIntel

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Team Helix

Looks as though they've fixed this in 5.8.16

Thay've also reinstated the tick next to snooze when it's snoozing.

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Still broken in 5.8.17.... Probably has something to do with the length of the string... Only CPU's with a long string of identifiers/capabilties drop the second string... (It is present in the XML, but, websites clip it cuz it's too long....).... Below is the real CPU flags string from an AMD X2 4200+

fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8legacy ts fid vid ttp tm stc

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As long as the cpu capability string is available to the scheduler (for smart assignment of workunits) I don't see a problem with that. The long string did look a bit ugly.

On the other hand, it would be nice to see the more than just the cpu manufacturer. Perhaps the best choice would be to show the second string excluding (hiding) everything inside the square brackets.

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Team Helix

As long as the cpu capability string is available to the scheduler (for smart assignment of workunits) I don't see a problem with that. The long string did look a bit ugly.

On the other hand, it would be nice to see the more than just the cpu manufacturer. Perhaps the best choice would be to show the second string excluding (hiding) everything inside the square brackets.

Problem is that it's so long, the client cuts the string off before the second ']'

Here is the URL of a 5.8.17 Linux client with and AMD X2 cpu...

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=372435

Below is the host_info for the client_state.xml... notice that the second ']' gets cut off in <p_model> .... you will notice that it's not just one or two character too long, but a whole bunch.....

<host_info>
<timezone>-18000</timezone>
<domain_name>shared3</domain_name>
<ip_addr>192.168.5.64</ip_addr>
<host_cpid>2871d8130d4426162ed8c4b9af2548f9</host_cpid>
<p_ncpus>2</p_ncpus>
<p_vendor>AuthenticAMD</p_vendor>
<p_model>AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ [Family 15 Model 75 Stepping 2][fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr</p_model>
<p_fpops>2146728022.455104</p_fpops>
<p_iops>4997074464.835873</p_iops>
<p_membw>1000000000.000000</p_membw>
<p_calculated>1173661624.591153</p_calculated>
<m_nbytes>2124599296.000000</m_nbytes>
<m_cache>524288.000000</m_cache>
<m_swap>2146754560.000000</m_swap>
<d_total>210880741376.000000</d_total>
<d_free>142760882176.000000</d_free>
<os_name>Linux</os_name>
<os_version>2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6</os_version>
<accelerators></accelerators>
</host_info>

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