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Send message Joined: 6 Sep 07 Posts: 66 Credit: 636,861 RAC: 0 |
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... Thanks. |
Send message Joined: 6 Sep 07 Posts: 66 Credit: 636,861 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 6 Sep 07 Posts: 66 Credit: 636,861 RAC: 0 |
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:
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Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
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. 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. |
Send message Joined: 30 Nov 07 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,443 RAC: 0 |
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. 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. |
Send message Joined: 6 Sep 07 Posts: 66 Credit: 636,861 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 28 Aug 07 Posts: 35 Credit: 88,705,546 RAC: 0 |
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. Has there been any progress on Getting a Linux 64 bit application ? Proud Founder and member of Have a look at my WebCam |
Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
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. pretty sure our next version of the app will have a linux 64 bit binary. |
Send message Joined: 9 Nov 07 Posts: 20 Credit: 39,712 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :) |
Send message Joined: 8 Oct 07 Posts: 289 Credit: 3,690,838 RAC: 0 |
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? |
Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :) 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. |
Send message Joined: 18 Nov 07 Posts: 280 Credit: 2,442,757 RAC: 0 |
i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :) What about doing a VMWare install? Would be slow, I suppose, but.. |
Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
i'm still working on getting my advisors to spring for a machine that we can put windows 64 on :) 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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