Einstein S5R3 on FreeBSD?
3 Nov 2007 15:40:50 UTC
Topic 193288
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Hi guys,
I decided to try something new on my desktop PC and install DesktopBSD (basically a pre-configured FreeBSD) as a second OS (yeah, I know I probably play around too much with my boxes...). Got BOINC to work allright, but whenever I connect to the Einstein project servers, I get a "platform not found" error. What can I do? Is there a FreeBSD app hidden somewhere? Is it perhaps just a configuration problem? Or, if all else fails, how is performance using the Linux compatibility layer, and would that be "risky" in terms of crashed WUs and stuff? Help would be greatly appreciated, since I really like this OS, but would like to continue participating here as well.
Greetings,
Annika
Einstein S5R3 on FreeBSD?
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Here's another thread about FreeBSD, although you wouldn't be able to tell by its title. There's also at least one more thread about it someplace, though I don't remember which one it is.
It's just that Bernd and crew are still trying to work out the bugs for the main platforms (Windows, Linux, and MacOS X) before porting the S5R3 apps to other platforms.
I'm also looking forward to having more platforms supported, since I need to load up a machine with Solaris and start learning it.
Solaris 10 on Intel is
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Solaris 10 on Intel is supposed to be able to execute Linux applications....but.... well, I have not heard that anybody did this with E@H.
CU
Bikeman
RE: Solaris 10 on Intel is
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Then Annika will be the first. =) Edit, or not, misread a bit here...
Donald, for learning/experimenting on Solaris, wouldnt VMWare Workstation be a good idea? You could get a free trial and check it out. VM-WS 6.01 is listed with support for Solaris 10 and "experimental" for 9.
Team Philippines
RE: RE: Solaris 10 on
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Actually, I have other reasons for wanting a full-fledged Solaris box.
Well, I would be willing to
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Well, I would be willing to try something experimental if it has decent chances of working. The only three projects I found supporting FreeBSD are two I'm not interested in and the third is SETI (this is an AMD box with only 512 KB cache, so it wouldn't be suitable for SETI no matter what OS I run). Besides, Einstein is my favorite project, so I'd be willing to make some effort in order to participate.
RE: Well, I would be
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Hi Annika, a member of our team is successfully running the 4.09 beta under FreeBSD. Have look at his hosts. You can contact him through the heise forum mail, or leave a message in our forum(german)
cu,
Michael
RE: Well, I would be
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Strange, but SETI is the only program running now on my PII with 512k L2 cache. The SETI deadlines are very long and I have no problem meeting them. But why Einstein and QMC aren't sending me any new work?
Tullio
I guess they don't have
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I guess they don't have FreeBSD apps for the new "science runs" or whatever it's called in QMC. That's about the same problem I have. I'm not particularly crazy about attaching the box to SETI (as I said, I don't think it would work out performance-wise, and besides, I really want to give Einstein a res share on that box) but atm, SETI with its many optimized apps seems to be the only "big" project supporting FreeBSD (not sure about SIMAP and Rosetta). None of the other projects on my list offers anything.
RE: Strange, but SETI is
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I guess BOINC thinks that it's time for SETI to catch up a bit because QMC and Einstein got more than their "fair share" of CPU cycles recently. I think I found your PII on the BOINC Stats side, you can see some historical statistics for your PII here.
CU
Bikeman
Well, I rather think the
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Well, I rather think the problem is FreeBSD in this case, since I was unable to get any work in both projects, too, and no current FreeBSD science app is listed.