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Message 143 - Posted: 8 Oct 2007, 18:12:59 UTC

As the application has already been ported to AMD64 for BSD, how about releasing the AMD64 application for Linux too? It shouldn't be too hard as it already works for BSD...

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Message 145 - Posted: 8 Oct 2007, 20:16:45 UTC - in response to Message 144.  

But now that it seems to work on every platform, I'll feel a little more comfortable putting it up on platforms that I don't have direct access to.

And if you need help then, just let me know.

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Message 1113 - Posted: 17 Dec 2007, 17:41:23 UTC

Even though there's an official AMD64 client for Linux, it refers to too many dynamic libraries and requires a fairly recent Linux setup to run on.

So, one more time, I'm making available the AMD64 Linux client here. It refers to a minimal set of standard dynamic libraries whose version requirements should be satisfied by Linux systems up to 2 or 3 years old, however it was built with a fairly recent version of GCC, 4.1.2.

The drill's still the same:


The official AMD64 Windows client can be found here.

For more information, see the BoincStats Forum.

HTH


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Message 1116 - Posted: 19 Dec 2007, 4:00:50 UTC - in response to Message 1113.  

Even though there's an official AMD64 client for Linux, it refers to too many dynamic libraries and requires a fairly recent Linux setup to run on.

So, one more time, I'm making available the AMD64 Linux client here. It refers to a minimal set of standard dynamic libraries whose version requirements should be satisfied by Linux systems up to 2 or 3 years old, however it was built with a fairly recent version of GCC, 4.1.2.

The drill's still the same:


The official AMD64 Windows client can be found here.

For more information, see the BoincStats Forum.

HTH



I'm pretty sure we have access to AMD64 machines (one of our clusters run this i believe). I'll try and get our labstaff to put boinc on it so i can compile a binary for this architecture.
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Message 1122 - Posted: 19 Dec 2007, 15:56:42 UTC - in response to Message 1116.  

Even though there's an official AMD64 client for Linux, it refers to too many dynamic libraries and requires a fairly recent Linux setup to run on.

So, one more time, I'm making available the AMD64 Linux client here. It refers to a minimal set of standard dynamic libraries whose version requirements should be satisfied by Linux systems up to 2 or 3 years old, however it was built with a fairly recent version of GCC, 4.1.2.

The drill's still the same:


The official AMD64 Windows client can be found here.

For more information, see the BoincStats Forum.

HTH



I'm pretty sure we have access to AMD64 machines (one of our clusters run this i believe). I'll try and get our labstaff to put boinc on it so i can compile a binary for this architecture.


A 64-bit binary would be cool. As you probably know already, you'll see a speed increase if the algorithm uses lots of integer calculations and it may not cost you a lot of man-hours to get that benefit (perhaps just a few minor tweaks and recompile).

What you might not know is that there are other ways to get speed increases with 64-bit though implementing those methods might take additional work. Only you and your team can know if the potential speed boost is worth the effort but you might want to look into using SSE/SSE2 functions and registers under 64-bit to speed up floating point ops. IIRC, the SIMAP project got a decent speed boost by taking advantage of SSE/SSE2 for one of their predominately floating point apps.

I am no expert on optimizations for 64-bit but Augustine, Crunch3r and others are. They've helped other projects and might have time to give your team some pointers too.

Meanwhile, your 32-bit app(s) are doing well on my 64-bit Linux machines. Keep up the good work.

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Message 1124 - Posted: 19 Dec 2007, 16:55:13 UTC - in response to Message 1116.  

I'm pretty sure we have access to AMD64 machines (one of our clusters run this i believe). I'll try and get our labstaff to put boinc on it so i can compile a binary for this architecture.

Feel free to drop me a line if you'd like help in porting the app to 64 bits. ;-)

Thanks.

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Message 1526 - Posted: 17 Jan 2008, 19:58:21 UTC - in response to Message 1124.  

I'm pretty sure we have access to AMD64 machines (one of our clusters run this i believe). I'll try and get our labstaff to put boinc on it so i can compile a binary for this architecture.

Feel free to drop me a line if you'd like help in porting the app to 64 bits. ;-)

Thanks.



Has there been any progress on Getting a Linux 64 bit application ?

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Message 1534 - Posted: 19 Jan 2008, 14:25:23 UTC - in response to Message 1526.  

I'm pretty sure we have access to AMD64 machines (one of our clusters run this i believe). I'll try and get our labstaff to put boinc on it so i can compile a binary for this architecture.

Feel free to drop me a line if you'd like help in porting the app to 64 bits. ;-)

Thanks.



Has there been any progress on Getting a Linux 64 bit application ?


pretty sure our next version of the app will have a linux 64 bit binary.
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Message 1540 - Posted: 20 Jan 2008, 2:35:08 UTC - in response to Message 1534.  


Hi,

....pretty sure our next version of the app will have a linux 64 bit binary.

More importantly, how about a Windows 64-bit app? ;-)


TTFN - Pete.


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Message 1555 - Posted: 20 Jan 2008, 21:10:08 UTC - in response to Message 1540.  


Hi,

....pretty sure our next version of the app will have a linux 64 bit binary.

More importantly, how about a Windows 64-bit app? ;-)


TTFN - Pete.


i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :)
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Message 1556 - Posted: 20 Jan 2008, 22:01:20 UTC - in response to Message 1555.  
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i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :)



but but....if you have a Linux64 available can't that same machine do windows64?
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Message 1656 - Posted: 6 Feb 2008, 8:29:27 UTC - in response to Message 1556.  

i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :)



but but....if you have a Linux64 available can't that same machine do windows64?


the linux64 machines we compile on are a cluster on campus. i don't forsee anyone putting windows on them at any time in the future because they're mostly used for MPI and remote login.
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Message 1658 - Posted: 6 Feb 2008, 11:01:00 UTC - in response to Message 1656.  

i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :)



but but....if you have a Linux64 available can't that same machine do windows64?


the linux64 machines we compile on are a cluster on campus. i don't forsee anyone putting windows on them at any time in the future because they're mostly used for MPI and remote login.


What about doing a VMWare install? Would be slow, I suppose, but..
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Message 1660 - Posted: 6 Feb 2008, 17:05:38 UTC - in response to Message 1658.  

i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :)



but but....if you have a Linux64 available can't that same machine do windows64?


the linux64 machines we compile on are a cluster on campus. i don't forsee anyone putting windows on them at any time in the future because they're mostly used for MPI and remote login.


What about doing a VMWare install? Would be slow, I suppose, but..


yeah we need to come up with a way to make binaries for all the different platforms. it's really making me wish that BOINC clients were java based :P
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