Linux or Windows

[D_o_S]

What is the faster OS for Rosetta? Has anyone tried Linux and compared it to Windows?

[LP_]

Windows, because it benches higher.

[Paladin]

When "faster" is defined as the most credits per day, then Windows. The reason for this is the dynamic way that points are awarded. It's based upon how fast the client thinks your machine is based upon a Dhry/Whet-stone benchmark which it runs once a week. The benchmark in the Linux client runs much slower (MIPS/MFLOPS) than the Windows one.

When "faster" is defined in real results completed, Linux probably wins.

If you compile the Linux client with ICC, let it in-line everything, force register parameter passing, -O3, -march, etc. I hypothesize Linux will out-score Windows. Downside is you'll need ICC instead of of the default GCC compiler plus a bit of C knowledge and time.

Main thing I miss under Linux is a program to change the FSB on-the-fly like in Windows.

Server 2003 gets pretty close to a genkernel or vanilla Linux.

[Acrazar]

if it awards points relative to the speed of a bench run once a week doesnt that mean that you could cheat by OCing to a point you know you can only hold for a couple hours to get the bench than lowering it and crunch away?

sorry if this is ridiculas but i dont want another thing like D2OL

[LP_]

Yep, they could.
You might want to read this (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=349) thread at the R@H forum.

[[XC] DragonOrta]

Since it bases points off of the benchmarks, would 2k be the best OS for Rosetta?