Would like to make the Boinc Client obviously complete WU's as fast as possible but I would like links to a decent guide because I can't find too many specific to Vista 64.

I run a dual core and I have a cuda GPU. I run SETI and Einstein and would like the CPU dedicated to Einstein and GPU to SETI. Any tips? And can I dedicate the dual core to just one WU and complete it faster than running two WU's simultaneously?

BOINC doesn't crunch anything, so optimizing it won't do you much good. You'll need to optimize the science application, for as far as the source code is available. For Seti optimized applications, look in this thread.

Einstein is optimizing its own applications, look for the latest in this thread.

At the moment you can set Seti up to crunch Seti Enhanced (only) on the GPU. Then it will only crunch Seti on the GPU, it won't do any Seti Enhanced on the CPU (due to restrictions in the client side scheduler). So in your Seti project preferences set to do only Seti Enhanced work, uncheck Astropulse, uncheck the option to get work if no work available for the choice you made above and check the option to use the GPU. Save changes to the web site and BOINC will get the new preferences when it next contacts Seti.

By doing so you'll be able to use one CPU for Einstein and one CPU + the GPU for Seti. The GPU uses a small portion of the CPU at all times.

Be warned that the GPU application on Seti is not stable yet. Expect a lot of computing errors. Do check the forums at Seti for the latest.

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Would like to make the Boinc Client obviously complete WU's as fast as possible but I would like links to a decent guide because I can't find too many specific to Vista 64.

I run a dual core and I have a cuda GPU. I run SETI and Einstein and would like the CPU dedicated to Einstein and GPU to SETI. Any tips? And can I dedicate the dual core to just one WU and complete it faster than running two WU's simultaneously?

Optimising BOINC won't help you in the slightest - BOINC doesn't do any actual computation, it just manages and marshalls the project science applications which do the real work.

SETI has a number of optimised applications, but none yet for CUDA - the BOINC release is just too new, and even the project's own application is still full of bugs. Read the SETI message boards periodically - any CUDA-optimised application will surface there first.

Einstein doesn't allow optimised applications, but they do periodically release Beta and 'Power Users' applications which incorporate the latest, and fastest, techniques. Again, you need to read the project message boards to find out about these.

Edit - snap!

Edit - snap!

Good to see though that we said the same things. :-)

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Great guys thanks alot for the new information, I am really looking forward to contributing. I would love the resources just to monitor a whole room of computers crunching numbers.

Great guys thanks alot for the new information, I am really looking forward to contributing. I would love the resources just to monitor a whole room of computers crunching numbers.

I find BoincView (http://boincview.amanheis.de/) a good monitoring tool.