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Another king of the pile...
More results added to the tables which now boast over 350 entries. As usual errors and corrections to me (Max) new benchmarks to Roelof. The two new fastest times at the top of the heap mean that this client is getting close to full circle. The dichotomy of fast hardware (yours) pitted against slow clients (theirs) is coming round to the point where Berkeley will have trouble keeping up. The eternal bandwidth problem loometh. The greed for work units and the returning flood of results many months ago provoked a ham-fisted attempt to introduce a slower client (3.03 - the present one). With 2GHz processors set to become commonplace by year end I hope Berkeley have thought through a better strategy than the last mangled attempt to slow down our production. Not that much ever seems to have slowed TeamLambChop down for long.
Congratulations to Tim Cole and tuffguy for their contributions to lowering the numbers and to the rest of you that are not quite so fortunate to have mega (or should I say giga) equipment at hand. 'Watch out for the AMD Palominos! I have a feeling they are going to dominate the top positions over the next few months!' (Roelof). Too true considering the relative difference in CPU speed. If a 1400MHz Athlon (stonking 160 bus) can be a match for a 2GHz P4 (pedestrian 100 bus but monster multiplier) then life is going to be cheap and fast! reminds me of old times when FSB was everything (poor deluded oaf that I am). Enough for now, look at the numbers and beware drooling too close to those racks of naked systems strewn around your personal farming arena...  
Max out.

Ticking over...
Just to maintain the pretence of life in this slot before the next updated round of results appears, SETIDriver v2 is in the works so if you fancy trying the latest beta... Also to keep the software revisions current Igor Arsenins TaskInfo2000 has also incremented a notch to 3.07.14. 
I tend to skimp on Linux related info (due to my own ignorance I shamefully admit) so it's great to be able to report that we have a soul brave enough to attempt a linux version of SETI Spy. The link is to an Ars Technica Open Forum page which gives details, you need to read the authors (McMillan Y-4) caveats as this is definitely work in progress. The screenshots look promisingly good though. If you want a more active lifestyle then wander around the forum which has improved significantly over the last few months with more distributed computing talk than you could throw a wet kipper at. Lots of postings lots of help and general DC info for the asking! 
Max out.