Hi, hokiealumnus Well I'm quite bussy with folding and I can tell you that the multi core client for folding, isn't doing much intercore communication.
It's not like the ps3 client that does do a litle bit of work on each spu.
the folding multicoreclient behaves like a client that can work on a grid of computers, so it doens't need the big intercore bandwith (it's not like the intel intercore communication is as slow as ethernet) That's why folding smp needs the MPI service for multicore! So phenom will only outperform Core 2 if folding would implement somthing like the ps3 core, but that doens't make much sens for a normal x86 cpu.
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