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Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
Hi Everybody, for both our sanity i'm going to use this thread to keep a list of supported/unsupported platforms. If and of you have access to an unsupported platform and would like to help us make binaries for it, please feel free to send me a private message or email :) currently (as of 1.14) we're supporting: i386-unknown-freebsd amd64-unknown-freebsd i686-pc-linux-gnu x86_64-linux-gnu powerpc-apple-darwin i686-apple-darwin sparc-sun-solaris windows_intelx86.exe windows_x86_64.exe powerpc-ibm-aix (hopefully) which leaves these unsupported: powerpc-linux-gnu ppc64-linux-gnu alpha-hp-linux-gnu ia64-linux-gnu sparc-sun-linux-gnu sparc64-sun-linux-gnu x86_64-apple-darwin sparc-sun-solaris2.7 sparc64-sun-solaris hppa-hp-hpux hppa64-hp-hpux alpha-hp-tru64 ia64-hp-hpux i686-pc-freebsd x86_64-pc-freebsd i686-pc-openbsd x86_64-pc-openbsd |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 114,470 RAC: 0 |
Hi Everybody, for both our sanity i'm going to use this thread to keep a list of supported/unsupported platforms. If and of you have access to an unsupported platform and would like to help us make binaries for it, please feel free to send me a private message or email :) Currently unsupported: amd64-portbld-freebsd I've build the boinc client from source (net/boinc-client port, no special configuration except that I told the compiler to optimize for my CPU type). Would an app_info.xml help here? |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 114,470 RAC: 0 |
Hi Everybody, for both our sanity i'm going to use this thread to keep a list of supported/unsupported platforms. If and of you have access to an unsupported platform and would like to help us make binaries for it, please feel free to send me a private message or email :) 06-Aug-2008 00:01:17 [http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/] Master file download succeeded 06-Aug-2008 00:01:22 [http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/] Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Requesting 1 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 06-Aug-2008 00:01:27 [Milkyway@home] Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 06-Aug-2008 00:01:27 [Milkyway@home] Message from server: platform 'amd64-portbld-freebsd' not found Indeed, I haven't compiled the boinc client with Linux app support (that way you loose FreeBSD app support :( ) |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 5,895,556 RAC: 44 |
Hi Everybody, for both our sanity i'm going to use this thread to keep a list of supported/unsupported platforms. If and of you have access to an unsupported platform and would like to help us make binaries for it, please feel free to send me a private message or email :) Same question really, was overjoyed to eventually find a project that would work properly with FreeBSD, but can't seem to work out how to tell it that i386-portbld-freebsd is the same as i386-unknown-freebsd. Or is it, have I missed something obvious? |
Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 363 Credit: 258,227,990 RAC: 0 |
use the app_info.xml.... it should look like that. Make sure you download the application too ! <app_info> <app> <name>astronomy</name> </app> <file_info> <name>astronomy_1.21_i386-unknown-freebsd</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>astronomy</app_name> <version_num>121</version_num> <file_ref> <file_name>astronomy_1.21_i386-unknown-freebsd</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> </app_info> http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/download/astronomy_1.21_i386-unknown-freebsd <app_info> <app> <name>astronomy</name> </app> <file_info> <name>astronomy_1.21_amd64-unknown-freebsd</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>astronomy</app_name> <version_num>121</version_num> <file_ref> <file_name>astronomy_1.21_amd64-unknown-freebsd</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> </app_info> http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/download/astronomy_1.21_amd64-unknown-freebsd Join Support science! Joinc Team BOINC United now! |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 5,895,556 RAC: 44 |
Thank you very much indeed, worked beautifully. Took a few tries to realise I needed to chmod the various files, but once that was sorted it worked. |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 08 Posts: 6 Credit: 114,470 RAC: 0 |
works fine here (freebsd-7/amd64). Don't forget to make file binary executable after downloading it, otherwise the workunits fail (that happened to me). How about making a FreeBSD port of it (for 6 and 7 on i386 and amd64)? |
Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 363 Credit: 258,227,990 RAC: 0 |
that's unlikely to happen. My recommendation is to run the linux binary, which is the fastest application atm. Join Support science! Joinc Team BOINC United now! |
Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 46 Credit: 8,529,766 RAC: 0 |
The fastest, except for that very special one that makes a machine look like it runs at 100GHz... BOINC.BE: For Belgians who love the smell of glowing red cpu's in the morning Tutta55's Lair |
Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 363 Credit: 258,227,990 RAC: 0 |
i have no idea of what you're talking about... 100GHz ... wait check the top computer now ! it truely runs at 100 GHz !!! WoW !! though it has pretty bad benchmark scores for that kind of clock rate :( Join Support science! Joinc Team BOINC United now! |
Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 46 Credit: 8,529,766 RAC: 0 |
though it has pretty bad benchmark scores for that kind of clock rate :( Yes, 6391.61 million fp ops/sec is really low for a machine that racks 260 credits for 430 seconds of work. ;) Any perspective on release of this application to the general public? BOINC.BE: For Belgians who love the smell of glowing red cpu's in the morning Tutta55's Lair |
Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 363 Credit: 258,227,990 RAC: 0 |
well with all the Kredit Kops running around the projects just to make participating in that given project a bad experience (their latest victim is einstein@home) and all the talk about leveling playing-fields & cross-project parity, I've decided that i do need to compensate for the damage done by the credit gestapo... Unfortunately for all other participants my new "policy-of-compensation" does not allow a public release for the given reasons. Same goes for all other projects like genetic life where i already have an application that's 2.5 times as fast as the stock application. hope that this answers your question. Join Support science! Joinc Team BOINC United now! |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 5,895,556 RAC: 44 |
Have pointed this thread out to Pav (who's the FreeBSD maintainer of all things BOINC), so maybe a port's not out of the question. |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 5,895,556 RAC: 44 |
Ask, and you shall receive. Pav says: The port is under works too. Not that it's massively involved to install the app currently, but is nice to have a little more automation. |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 5,895,556 RAC: 44 |
Sorry for replying to myself, but here's the port as promised. Stopped BOINC, installed it over the existing installation where I'd copied the files in, started BOINC again and all works perfectly. |
Send message Joined: 8 Aug 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 614,201 RAC: 0 |
Happy to help :) |
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