Information About F@H V7 Client

Well fellow Gurus, today is a really nice day for our fellow Guru Folders. Below is the partial changelog for the anticipated V7 F@H Client that I have obtained from Dr. Vijay's Blog.

In short, if everything works out fine, we will have V7.1.18 available to the public for open Beta Testing once it has finished internal testing. An excerpt of the changelog:

CHANGELOG:

v7.1.18:    * More GPU whitelisting.
    * Use OS logical CPU count instead of CPUID counts.
    * Hide/restore any open dialogs with main FAHControl window.
    * Don't allow opening more than one dialog via the sys-tray menu.
    * Restore main window on preferences or about from sys-tray menu.
    * Change configure dialog OK button to Save.
    * Fixed AS hammering, #511.
    * Fixed 'Waiting On' message problems.
    * Use heartbeat to timeout FAHControl connections.
    * Fixed damage to active client's config when adding new client. #536.
    * Catch property save error on FAHControl close in Windows 2008.
    * Disallow saving both config and address/port changes in FAHControl.
    * Fixed CUDA driver version reporting. #571.
    * Fix file and directory permissions in .deb and .rpm packages.
    * Added volume icon for OSX DMG package.
    * Hopefully fixed sidebar issue in DMG.  #516.
    * Fixed local FAHClient shutdown with 'Stop' button on Windows.
    * Removed extra linefeeds from copied log.  #428.

v7.1.17:    * Really whitelisted some more GPUs.

v7.1.16:    * Use core count not thread count for SMP autoconfiguration.
    * Clear FAHViewer info when disconnected.
    * Whitelisted some more GPUs.
    * Removed ATI Mobility GPUs from whitelist.
    * Fixed cpu core/thread/logical detection.

v7.1.15:    * Print 'CUDA not detected' in info.
    * Attempt to fix broken CUDA detection.

v7.1.14:    * Ignore CUDA library exceptions.

v7.1.13:    * Fixed problem with editing client in FAHControl when not connected.
    * Fixed next-unit-percentage rounding error.
    * Removed threading and polling in FAHControl.
    * Created developer interface for FAHClient.
    * Dropped follow log control.
    * Fixed bug in connecting FAHViewer when no slot is selected in FAHControl.
    * Added heartbeat between FAHControl and FAHClient.
    * Added local client command in FAHControl preferences.
    * Let FAHClient crash rather than catch unknown exceptions at top level.
    * Added button to manually start and stop local client from FAHControl.
    * Display error dialog if client authorization fails.
    * Fixed slot popup menu actions bug.

v7.1.12:    * Fixed --info printing for FERMI GPUs.
    * Fixed Non-fermi CUDA reporting.
    * Added new core exit codes for GPU cores.
    * Include CPU threads in SMP default core count.
    * Updated CPU count info display.
    * Default next-unit-percentage to 99%.
    * Added color for 'Finishing' state in FAHControl.
    * Fixed bug in highlighting WU for selected 'Finishing' slot.
    * Added warning in FAHControl about changing SMP CPU count mid run.
    * Round the next-unit-percentage calculation to the nearest integer.
    * Fixed arrow key movement in slot and queue list views in FAHControl.
    * Updated FAHViewer icon and use in FAHControl.
    * Fixed problem with selecting slots in FAHControl.  #359
    * Fixed potential problems with CPU count code on single core machines.
    * Quit FAHControl on Window X in OSX.
    * Remove 'Hide' toolbar button in OSX.
    * Fixed crash in OSX on Apple keys.
    * Added OSX dock menu items.

v7.1.11:    * Fixed FAHViewer fullscreen problems in Windows.
    * Show absolute path to log file in client fail popup.
    * Fixed CPU counting for multiple physical processors.
    * Fixed missing estimated credit field in FAHControl.
    * Fixed bug with removing client from FAHControl.
    * Fixed crash in FAHViewer when switching from Demo to Live data.
    * Don't load Demo protein when connecting.
    * Set environment variable to communicate gpu-id to GPU cores.
    * Added list of known GPUs PCI vendor + device IDs including subvendors.
    * Added support for loading a custom 'GPUs.txt' file in the run directory.
    * Added 'gpu-index' for cases where GPU indexing does not match core's.

v7.1.10:    * Fix Windows missing icons.
    * Use different icon for FAHViewer.
    * Go back to static linking of libexpat.
    * Popup error message if local client exits in FAHControl.
    * Fixed bug in auto-detecting multiple GPUs.
    * Removed 'gpus' option.
    * Fixed bug which disabled adding slots via FAHControl.
    * Changes to the GPU detection code.
    * Changes to sample-config.xml.
    * Minor textual tweaks.

FYI: For a more detailed changlog from 7.0.4 to 7.1.18, please visit the Blog.