MacOS X Intel S5R3 App 4.33 available for Beta Test
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19 Feb 2008 18:10:24 UTC
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A new MacOS X Intel App is available from our Beta Test Page.
It is the first "separate graphics App" ("APIv6") for the MaOS X Intel platform. Furthermore it features some more tweaking with the sin/cos code and some prefetching instructions to speed up memory access in the "Hough" part. Many thanks to Bikeman for these improvements!
Happy testing!
BM
BM
MacOS X Intel S5R3 App 4.33 available for Beta Test
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You're welcome!
I installed it on my MacMini. If all goes as expected the speedup should be noticeable immediately.
CU
Bikeman
Wow First 3 results in. 2
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Wow
First 3 results in. 2 mixed and 1 clean 4.33
Timed went from about 31000 to about 20000 on the 4.33 app.
And 1 has validated allready.
Well done
Anders n
Yeah, this thing is fast and
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Yeah, this thing is fast and unleashes the beast inside my MacBook Pro :)
Same here first mixed results went down from 27-31k to 22 000 seconds.
Wow, 4.33 is Speedy
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Wow, 4.33 is Speedy Gonzales.
my graph of times just went off the cliff
Core temperature went up by
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Core temperature went up by few degrees as well...
The prefetching speeds up the
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The prefetching speeds up the "Hough" part of the code, which is also responsible for the variation in runtime between different workunits of the same frequency. I guess the variation should be reduced significantly wit this App.
BM
BM
Interesting. After I copied
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Interesting. After I copied the 4.33 files to my E@H folder, I tried to restart BOINC. I got an error code concerning permissions and was instructed to reinstall BOINC. Reinstalled BOINC 5.10.34 (same version as before) and everything worked fine.
Same thing happened after I copied the 4.22 files, but I thought it was a fluke. Any ideas on what's happening?
Details:
Mac OS 10.5.2
BOINC 5.10.34
RE: Interesting. After I
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This is caused by the special "sandbox" feature that BOINC uses on MacOS. See the installation instructions on the beta app page on how to fix this condition without a complete re-install.
CU
Bikeman
RE: Interesting. After I
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The ownership of the files is wrong. Reinstalling BOINC will solve it, but is not necessary. Alternatively:
1) Quit BOINC
2) Copy the files to the einstein project folder
3) In a terminal:
cd /Library/Application\\ Support/BOINC\\ Data/projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
sudo chown boinc_master:boinc_project *
4) Restart BOINC
Reno, NV Team: SETI.USA
RE: A new MacOS X Intel App
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I am getting an error message from the app_info.xml, when BOINC starts.
Wed Feb 20 19:15:50 2008||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.42 for i686-apple-darwin
Wed Feb 20 19:15:50 2008|Einstein@Home|Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
Wed Feb 20 19:15:50 2008|Einstein@Home|[error] State file error: missing application file einstein_S5R3_4.04_i686-apple-darwin
It appears to be working anyway.
Reno, NV Team: SETI.USA