S5GC1HF 2.07 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

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This is the first native 64Bit (Linux) App of Einstein@Home. It's mainly meant to test compatibility. It was built on a Ubuntu 6.06 system from the same codebase as the 1.07 Linux App, I don't expect any differene e.g. in runtime. Its main purpose is to relieve participants from having to install the 32Bit compatibility libraries on 64Bit stsyems.

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S5GC1HF 2.07 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

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This is the first native 64Bit (Linux) App of Einstein@Home. It's mainly meant to test compatibility. It was built on a Ubuntu 6.06 system from the same codebase as the 1.07 Linux App, I don't expect any differene e.g. in runtime. Its main purpose is to relieve participants from having to install the 32Bit compatibility libraries on 64Bit stsyems.

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Thanks for building this app for Linux. Does the app download automatically on 64-bit systems or should it be downloaded manually and setup via an app_info.xml file?

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This is the first native 64Bit (Linux) App of Einstein@Home. It's mainly meant to test compatibility. It was built on a Ubuntu 6.06 system from the same codebase as the 1.07 Linux App, I don't expect any differene e.g. in runtime. Its main purpose is to relieve participants from having to install the 32Bit compatibility libraries on 64Bit stsyems.

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Thanks for building this app for Linux. Does the app download automatically on 64-bit systems or should it be downloaded manually and setup via an app_info.xml file?


The app appears on the public applications page, so it should download automatically on appropriate platforms. If one of Bernd's tests requires an app_info.xml, he usually posts the whole thing in the beta area for manual download.

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Does the app download automatically on 64-bit systems or should it be downloaded manually and setup via an app_info.xml file?

It should get downloaded automatically with a 64Bit Linux Client that reports the correct platform (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu). Many Linux distributions, though, only have a 32Bit BOINC Client or report a different platform (I think SuSE uses x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu).

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I just checked, and it

I just checked, and it appears that all of my 64-bit Linux machines are still getting the 32-bit apps. That includes CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuSE, and Arch Linux. All except for one OpenSuSE machine are running with 64-bit BOINC.

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What platforms do these

What platforms do these Clients report to the scheduler? Try something like:

grep -C1 platform sched_request_einstein.phys.uwm.edu.xml

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What platforms do these Clients report to the scheduler? Try something like:

grep -C1 platform sched_request_einstein.phys.uwm.edu.xml

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For the 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 machine, I get this:

1
    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    
        i686-pc-linux-gnu
    
    
--
    5
    i686-pc-linux-gnu
    107

This one is from the 64-bit CentOS 5.5 machine:

1
    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    
        i686-pc-linux-gnu
    
    
--
    5
    i686-pc-linux-gnu
    107

For the 64-bit Arch Linux machine:

1
    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    
        i686-pc-linux-gnu
    
    

I almost forgot about the 64-bit Debian 5.0 machine:

 1
    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    
        i686-pc-linux-gnu
    
    
--
    5
    i686-pc-linux-gnu
    107
--
    5
    i686-pc-linux-gnu
    107

From a 64-bit Fedora machine:

1
    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    
        i686-pc-linux-gnu
    
    
--
    5
    i686-pc-linux-gnu
    107

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Thanks. This is weird. I

Thanks. This is weird. I can't imagine that the clients need to be restarted, but it might be worth a try.

It might be that the current plan-class settings make scheduler think the x86 SSE2 App runs faster on these machines than the native x64 App. I won't have time to look into that over the weekend, though.

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Thanks. This is weird. I can't imagine that the clients need to be restarted, but it might be worth a try.

It might be that the current plan-class settings make scheduler think the x86 SSE2 App runs faster on these machines than the native x64 App. I won't have time to look into that over the weekend, though.

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Well, I have one Fedora machine that needs to be re-booted anyway. I'll go ahead and do that now to see what happens.

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I reconfigured the scheduler.

I reconfigured the scheduler. Please have another try and update the project.

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Edit: sorry, probably won't help. The scheduler code we're using is too old. May need to backport from recent BOINC code or implement a new plan class to work around the problem.

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I added a fake 64 Bit plan

I added a fake 64 Bit plan class (X8664), should work now.

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