iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 problems
10 Aug 2014 4:03:26 UTC
Topic 197675
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I downloaded and installed the latest version of BOINC available for PowerPC machines and attached to Einstein. Work downloads fine and seems to start crunching. However, after 11 hours of work it is still reporting 0% complete and if I look at the properties of the work unit there has been no checkpoint (at least the CPU time at last checkpoint field is blank). I have this problem on both an iBook G4 1.43GHz with 1.5GB running OSX 10.5.8 and a Power Book 1.67Ghz with 1.5GB running OSX 10.5.8.
CPU time on one of the machines is about 11 hours with about 11 hours remaining. The remaining time is counting down as if it will eventually finish but the percent complete remains at 0% and it seems it has not yet created a checkpoint.
I realize these are old computers but AFAIK they should at least work with BOINC and einstein@home. I ran with no issues on a G5 PowerMac a couple years ago... Anybody know what the issue could be?
iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 problems
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Well, shortly after i wrote this the percent complete jumped to 8.091% complete and a checkpoint was created. I guess running this on a G4 class processor is going to be pretty useless if it isn't running 24x7 and if it is only going to checkpoint once every 12 hours or so. Anybody know of any other altivec optimized clients still out there?
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I don't know how to tell but here is a list of all, well mostly, active distributed computing projects:
http://www.distributedcomputing.info/projects.html
I guess you could click on those that interest you and it would show you which ones can use a Mac and which ones can't. Although the 'ZooUniverse' ones do not say, don't know if that means they do, or if they don't. ZooUniverse seems to be a more active to the World todays issues then some of the Boinc ones. I have never done a ZooUniverse project, but they look interesting to me.