I wanted to test CPDN/BOINC on a Sun Workstation with 2 processors. The system is a sparc-sun-solaris-2.8. And it does not work. The CPND server responds that the platform is not found. I had to compile BOINC... Is the CPDN project planing to release model files for the SPARC/Solaris systems ?

I believe the short answer is no.

BOINC is just an interface. The real program is CPDN.

This program is about a million lines of fortran code, which normally runs on the
weather people's big main-frame. And it's NOT open source.

The programmers hired to convert the code to PCs have done so for the most common
machines being used, and their time is now being taken up by the next phase of the
experiment, the Sulphur Cycle, whatever that is.

There are versions of CPDN for three different flavors of Linux, but that looks
like being it, unless a multi-million donates lots of money to the project for
the hire of more programmers.

Les

> I believe the short answer is no.
>
> BOINC is just an interface. The real program is CPDN.
>
> This program is about a million lines of fortran code, which normally runs on
> the
> weather people's big main-frame. And it's NOT open source.
>
> The programmers hired to convert the code to PCs have done so for the most
> common
> machines being used, and their time is now being taken up by the next phase of
> the
> experiment, the Sulphur Cycle, whatever that is.
>
> There are versions of CPDN for three different flavors of Linux, but that
> looks
> like being it, unless a multi-million donates lots of money to the project
> for
> the hire of more programmers.
>
> Les
>

This is too bad. I just signed up and finally got boinc running on one of my sparc boxes and got the "platform sparc-sun-solaris2.7" not found message (though verson 2.7 is three releases and 5-6 years behind what is current). I have two ultra sparcs at home sitting idle for 22 hours of the day, and wanted to use them for this. I guess I'll see if SETI wants 3 cpu's worth of processor time.

JJ
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