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Thanks to Crunch3r (of SETI optimised client fame), we now have 64bit
Windows and Windows Itanium applications. Welcome Crunch3r - we're
proud to have him on board! Please let me know how you get on with
these applications. No news on the OS X front yet, but I've been in
contact with a couple of people, so we'll see what turns up in the
coming weeks...

I've also made significant changes to the way we calculate duration
and deadlines. The server calculates a few trajectories before creating
work, and uses the resulting estimate of number of floating point
operations to calculate an approximate WU duration. You should notice
that estimates become more consistent with the next few work releases.

As for deadlines, I've now set this so that clients will fail to meet
the deadline if they perform less than an average of 1000 floating
point operations per second on each WU from the time they are issued the
work. If we begin to see lots of clients failing, I'll reduce this
figure. Think of it as "average required work."

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