Is there a way to run this using XGrid? I have it running using Terminal okay. Also is there a way to run SETIBOINC at the same time either in terminal mode or XGrid? I am running OSX 10.3.5 on a G5 Dual 2GHz.

Thanks!

> Well, the short answer is "we don't know!" :)
> We have only one Macintosh and so have no opportunity to experiment with such
> things. After having a quick skim of the Xgrid pdf manual it looks
> interesting but it also looks a lot like what BOINC is doing but giving
> control over which programs to run to the user. I wouldn't see much point in
> running BOINC within Xgrid - you're still going to be running one model per
> computer and all the communication would still be going to our BOINC server.
> If you do decide to try it though we'd be interested in your results.
>
> You can run SETIBOINC at the same time as CPDN in the command line version.
> Go to SETI@home website, create an account there. Then run your normal CPDN
> boinc client and attach the project using --attach_project and the seti boinc
> url as the command line arguments. You will be prompted for your SETI id.
> BOINC will then timeslice between CPDN and SETI, doing work for both.
>
>Hey, thanks I will give the simultaneous SETI and CPDN a try. As for XGrid, I was able to create a custom plug-in linking my CP directory, but XGrid's tach appeared to only use my Mac. After reading the text file created, there was mention of "permissions denied". I think the other nodes were denied somehow. (I'm a novice when it comes to XGrid, Terminal commands and such). Thanks again.

XGrid is basically the same thing as BOINC. They are both set up as a framework to the part of distributed computing that always has to be done, and to let someone who wants to do a project concentrate on their particular client. The big difference is that BOINC is for most platforms, while XGrid is OSX only. XGrid is easier to set up both as someone running a project and as a contributer, but since it runs on such a small percentage of machines it is not very useful for a project of CPDN's scale. It is more for a lab or anywhere that there are a lot of OSX boxen around where it would be comparitively easy to set it up so that they can all contribute.