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We have a new version of the Einstein@Home application ready for testing on Macintosh OSX. Please see [url=http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/app_test.php]
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/app_test.php for details of how to install and test this on your Mac OSX computer.
This version includes a working screensaver and should interact nicely with the new BOINC manager tool.
Please use this thread to report success or problems with this application.
Bruce Allen
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Always a glutton for beta punishment. I'll have it up and running on both Macs today. It'll be good to see if this version plays nice with Predictor.
UPDATE: Dummy me, the first two units errored out because I forgot to chmod. Results 5596287 and 5596289 both gave the error message>process exited with code 2 (0x2). Third unit (after chmod) is running fine. BOINC Advanced GUI and even the graphics work.
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RE: Always a glutton for
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Nice to see you here!
We should put them in a tar so the user doesn't need to do this manually
Already saw these...
Good eh? Was a hard piece of work...
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So far it is a great piece of work.
I've got two units on two different computers working fine. Won't see final results for a bit though. iMac G5 takes about 11 hours, and the old iBook 600 takes about 30 hours. Their both sharing time with Predictor but have been doing the hourly switch off without problems. I've changed the resource for those machines to give Einstein a better work out. 200/100 with Einstein getting the larger share. Ought to start seeing results within 24 hours.
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Fairly soon we ought to have an Altivec-enabled version available for testing. That will be quite a lot faster.
Bruce
Director, Einstein@Home
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Music to mine and many other Mac Users Ears.
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/Library/Application
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/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ directory
that path does not exist...are we supposed to create the directory folder inside /einstein.phys.uwm.edu/....or what.
Not very good instructions. I hope they program better then they give instructs!
Need a little help, please!
Thanks in advance!
MacStef
PS. Why are window machines getting more credits and run faster then the Macs. I have a G4 DP 1GHz w/ 1.5 GB Ram, I am running only boinc and it is slower then windows machines with slower processors.
What gives??!!!
MacStef. What client are
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MacStef. What client are you running? CLI (terminal) or GUI?
For the CLI the projects folder will be in the same directory as the BOINC Client
For the Menubar or BOINC Manager GUI, the full directory is Drive_Name/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
It is the Library folder at the Root of the drive, not the one under your user profile.
Not sure about windows machines getting more credits and running faster. Athlon's are best at Einstein, but I find my G5 will outperform a similar speed intel P4. The difference is speeds is attributable to many factors including type of calculation, pipeline length, and compilers If they bring out an altivec enabled einstein app. the G4 and G5 Macs will see a large speed increase.
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RE: Not sure about windows
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My 2.0 GHz G5 beats a 3.4 GHz Xeon and 3.2 GHz P4 on time to complete. Though the Xeon beats the PowerMac on production in that it can do two work units per CPU when the G5 can only do one per ...
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I just saw your first dropping in, looks ok.
Your iBook won't gain much of the AltiVec App, but it's good to test the AltiVec detection I put in...
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