boinc on ipod.

agge
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i have no idea how much computing power they have, or how fast it would use up the battery. but they can play videos n stuff, and there are a whole lot of them. maybe future generations?

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boinc on ipod.

yes, i realize it's kind of a far out idea, but with the ipod linux project it is possible to write programs for them...

Jim Milks
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Probably not a good idea.

Probably not a good idea. One website (http://scoutingaround.com/computers/ipod/ipod_generations.php) listed a fifth generation video iPod as having a 80 MHz CPU with either 32 MB or 64 MB of RAM. It'd never finish a short WU in time.

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My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has 16MB

My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has 16MB Ram and finishes a short WU
in 12 days :-)

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RE: My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has

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My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has 16MB Ram and finishes a short WU
in 12 days :-)

Cool, what Linux are you running on those old timers?

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The 486 has SuSE Linux 6.2.

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The 486 has SuSE Linux 6.2.
Its primary job is doing IP-masquerading for my LAN.
The Pentium III has SuSE Linux 7.0 with an upgraded kernel.

I had to install a newer C-Library on both machines to make Einstein work.

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My 400 MHz Pentium II with

My 400 MHz Pentium II with 320 MB Ram, SuSE Linux 10.1,completes one short WU in one day, while running QMC@home and SETI@home with lower priority. Bu I had to abandon bbc.climateprediction.net. No hope to meet its deadlines.
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RE: Probably not a good

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Probably not a good idea. One website (http://scoutingaround.com/computers/ipod/ipod_generations.php) listed a fifth generation video iPod as having a 80 MHz CPU with either 32 MB or 64 MB of RAM. It'd never finish a short WU in time.

But if you look closely, you will notice it says: "CPU: PortalPlayer PP5021C with dual variable speed ARM7TDMI cores running up to 80Mhz". And I believe these are a bit stronger than say i486. So, I believe it could be quite a fun runnig E@H and/or some other project on it (primegrid with its short WUs comes first to my mind).

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Maybe, I'm not having any

Maybe, I'm not having any luck googling up MFLOPs, or even MIPS numbers for any arm chips.

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The 80mhz model isn't listed,

The 80mhz model isn't listed, but by interpolating from the 66 and 100mhz ones it looks like the 486-80 would get about 4-5mflops
http://netlib2.cs.utk.edu/performance/html/flops_1.data.col0.html (see also ..flops_2, flops_3, and flops_4 for different tests).

I still haven't found anything on the ARM7 FPU.

The Arm9 gets ~1FLOP/clock, the arm3 needs ~10clocks/flop.

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RE: My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has

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My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has 16MB Ram and finishes a short WU
in 12 days :-)

I stand corrected. I didn't think that such a slow processor would finish within the 14 day limit. So processor speed and RAM won't preclude iPods. So it's really down to battery life as I figure that someone could create the needed modifications to BOINC. Does an iPod come with a power adapter and cord? I'm one of the few Mac fanatics that do not own an iPod, so I have no knowledge of what comes with an iPod.

Jim

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