Other clients
High Performance clients. In addition to the clients that run in the background on typical computers, we also offer high performance clients, such as the GPU and SMP clients. These clients use more system resources, but are also much more productive. Please consider the use of these clients carefully. See the respective GPU, GPU2, SMP, and PS3 FAQs for more information.
Beta clients. We often release clients early for donors to beta test. These beta versions likely have some rough edges, but we expect that they should work reasonably well for all donors. See the respective installation instructions for more details of known bugs for each of the beta versions.
As in the use of any beta software, please make sure to back up your hard drive before installing. DO NOT not run a beta client if you or your machines cannot tolerate even the slightest instability or problems. Beta clients and servers performance may vary significantly from standard FAH clients during the development process, including but not limited to work unit shortages, server downtime for upgrades, short notice for client upgrades, and Points Per Day that differs a little or a lot from the developmental benchmark level.
Finally, note that while the points per day for these clients are higher than the classic client, they can require a lot more maintenance due to their experimental or beta nature. If you would prefer to have a client which runs as smoothly as possible, we suggest you run our main client, not a high performance client. If you run a high performance client, expect a much more complex experience and much more work to keep the client running (which is compensated by extra points per day).
High Performance Clients
| Operating system | Version # | Click to download | Installation instructions | License info (legal stuff) | MD5-sum |
| Windows: V6 GPU2 (ATI 2xxx, 3xxx, 4xxx; nVidia) clients | |||||
| Windows XP/2003/Vista GPU System tray client (installer msi) | 6.23 | 
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| 0aaf8a8dfdeebbedd37ae2b896c965f5 Released: 2008-11-26 |
| Windows XP/2003/Vista GPU System tray client with special viewer for NVIDIA GPU's (installer msi) | 6.23 |
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| b95e7a9d8806f82967553cdafa0db354 Released: 2008-11-26 |
| Windows XP/2003 GPU Console client. Uninstall any existing FAH services made with pre 6.20 clients before updating. | 6.23 |
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| c20900b43f66056887a5193e2009b090 Released: 2008-11-26 |
| Windows Vista GPU Console client (note running as a service does not work in Vista). Uninstall any existing FAH services made with pre 6.20 clients before updating. | 6.23 | 
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| 8d666584d97916e47ffa860fce93876e Released: 2008-11-26 |
| Windows: V6 Beta SMP/CPU clients | |||||
| Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 SMP client console version Read this forum post first! (it has directions for 5.92 that also apply for 6.22) | 6.22 beta2 for Deino MPI (32-bit only) |
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| cb7aacec64100333575cc5f0036260f1 Released: 2008-08-08 Expires: 2009-02-02 Must run with -smp -deino for smp mode. See this wiki page for info on running the console with switches. |
| Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 SMP client console version | 6.22 beta2 for MPICH (32-bit or 64-bit) |
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| e56e1f1d687a7a45b300177153bc0b89 Released: 2008-08-08 Expires: 2009-02-02 Must run with -smp for smp mode. See this wiki page for info on running the console with switches. |
Drop-in binary for current Windows SMP console client (6.23)
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Unsupported Windows SMP beta clients
| 'We have extended the deadline of the 5.91 and 5.92 beta clients for Windows SMP. These new binaries will expire on July 4, 2009. These are still beta software; they are also unsupported, so the PandeGroup does not actively support these clients. Furthermore, since new scientific cores and projects require features of the v6.x clients, we cannot guarantee the availability of work for the 5.9x Windows SMP clients at any time. That said, many donors are familiar with these clients and in recognition of that we have extended the availability through the early public beta testing period for the 6.x Windows SMP clients.'
The following 5.9x clients are provided as drop-in executables for existing installations only. |
| Windows SMP 5.92 beta client (for Deino MPI) | 5.92 |
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| Windows SMP 5.91 beta client (for MPICH) | 5.91 |
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Please see this link for more details about SMP clients, including a re-released 5.91/5.92 client with a July 2009 deadline. (You can also go directly to this forum page for the 5.91/5.92 client).