I know this has probably been asked many times, but i couldn't find the answer on the main page. What CPU instructions (ie; SSE) does the BOINC client utilize?

Thanks

BOINC itself none.
Whichever extensions the project's science applications use is up to the projects and best asked at their individual forums.

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Oh that's good to know. Just to clarify, individual projects can utilize instructions - whereas BOINC standalone does not?

Thanks again for the fast response!

Optimizations such as AVX are used cautiously by projects as it can lock out large swats of volunteer machines. Case in point, one project used SSE2 because it made the tasks run 20 times faster whilst only losing a few percent of hosts unable to contribute, and it still is taking near 2 years to bring the research to completion.

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Coelum Non Animum Mutant, Qui Trans Mare Currunt

BOINC is the managing program, it doesn't do any of the science calculations, that's solely done by the project's science applications. So no, BOINC itself does not have any use for CPU optimizations.

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