MacOS PPC Beta Test App 4.56 available

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RE: Anyone got a G4 that

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Anyone got a G4 that isn't a 7450?

How do you tell? System Profiler just says "G4 (2.0)" for my G4/733, and "G4 (2.8)" & "G4 (2.9)" for the G4/400s—no PPC model numbers there. All three systems are "charcoal" mini-towers. (For some reason the figures in parentheses are larger for the earlier models, unlike version numbers.)

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Both machines G5 11,2

Both machines G5 11,2 ppc978
465099 t56/t39=1.03
590544 t56/t39=1.05

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RE: RE: Anyone got a G4

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Anyone got a G4 that isn't a 7450?

How do you tell? System Profiler just says "G4 (2.0)" for my G4/733, and "G4 (2.8)" & "G4 (2.9)" for the G4/400s—no PPC model numbers there. All three systems are "charcoal" mini-towers. (For some reason the figures in parentheses are larger for the earlier models, unlike version numbers.)


Try Mactracker Link and go to your Mac models, it shows this numbers along with the PPC model numbers, might be the revisions of the CPU.

Rev 2.9 (of) PPC7400 - older
Rev 2.0 (of) PPC7450 - newer

Somewhere i see a list of the various types of 680xx, G3 and G4 and there differences and enhancments over the time.

Different Question:
Which times are to expect on a old iMac G3 350 MHz (Summer 2000, MachineID PowerMac2,2) running OSX.3.9? Any improvements with OSX.4?

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RE: Which times are to

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Which times are to expect on a old iMac G3 350 MHz (Summer 2000, MachineID PowerMac2,2) running OSX.3.9? Any improvements with OSX.4?


The OS version shouldn't make much of a difference; I'd expect crunching times to be rather slightly slower on OSX.4, because of background processes (Spotlight).
This machine might be comparable to yours, it took 113004.48s CPU-time (maybe 32h wall-clock if you're lucky) for a result with the official App 4.39. The 4.56 should be about twice as fast on non-AltiVec machines.

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RE: I'm not sure if I

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I'm not sure if I should be getting this, but this beta eliminates the MacOS error that I'd always getting with Albert 4.39 on long WUs (result below)


This is intentional. The error message was a bug in the BOINC version we were using back then.

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RE: RE: Anyone got a G4

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Anyone got a G4 that isn't a 7450?

How do you tell?

That's why I asked everyone to go into Terminal. When you run machine, it returns the CPU variant. As far as Apple's marketing dept. and System Profiler are concerned, it's G3, G4, and G5. But to OS X's UNIX underpinnings and heritage, it's ppc7400, ppc7450, or ppc970 (possibly even ppc604 if you play your haxies right...)

BTW, MacTracker is an excellent app - has been for a long time.

As for Spotlight, the answer is that its affect on BOINC is negligible. The only apps that'll irk BOINC are highly CPU intensive ones (ex.: Final Cut, Maya).

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Something to note, I have

Something to note, I have several invalid results with albert 4.56....

27935867
27935879
27873212

For the moment, I've switched back to 4.39...

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Bernd, I've now had four

Bernd,

I've now had four WU's show invalid results using Albert 4.56 on PowerMac G5 Quad. Many others have been sucessful.

I'm also switching back to 4.39.

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I've just installed it on my

I've just installed it on my PowerMac G5 1,8 Ghz Single FSB 600, running Panther 10.3.9.
Are the workunits available for the Beta Test only dummies or do they take part in the real scientific research ? If they should be only dummies, how much time should be spent with running the test application before returning to the regular version ?

Intel Q9300 Quadcore, 2500 Mhz, 4096 MB RAM, GeForce 9800 GT, Vista Ultimate 64-bit, Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit

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RE: Are the workunits

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Are the workunits available for the Beta Test only dummies or do they take part in the real scientific research ? If they should be only dummies, how much time should be spent with running the test application before returning to the regular version ?

The wus are real. The beta testing is mainly for compatibility and speed issues for that particular application.

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