Posts by old_user15302

1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 4755) Posted 28 Sep 2004 by old_user15302 Post: > > Thats a shame :-( . It sort of defeats the object of Boinc. How much > work > > is it buliding the CP client --with-boinc? > > well I don't think it "defeats the object of BOINC" considering nobody else > has ever run this model on Windows, let alone Win, Mac, and now Linux (well > they have run on Linux before, but usually clusters). It's a hell of a lot of > work to get a model running on a different O/S -- it took years to get it to > Windows, and from there another year to get it running under BOINC in > Win/Mac/Linux. That was with Tolu & myself working 6-7 days a week for > most of the year, probably 60 hours each a week at least. And with me leaving > at the end of Nov I'm afraid there are other priorities right now, such as the > not-so-small task of figuring out and documenting exactly what we did on the > client & server over the past year to get everything working! > The code must be a real monster to take that ammount of time to port we really appreciate your contribution. I was under the false impression that moving to a different OS with BOINC was much easier than native porting as BOINC took most of the OS interfacing and comms out of the equation. It must be a much more complex piece of code than seti@home. I believe that CPDN is a much more important issue than seti and I am surprised that Vendors like Sun were not interested. I suppose as time goes on more people will sit up and listen to the Global Warming issue. Probably too late already. Dave.
2) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 4731) Posted 27 Sep 2004 by old_user15302 Post: > thanks, but I'm afraid it doesn't look promising for CPDN under Solaris, we > just don't have the available staff to work on this right now. Perhaps if > CPDN gets to hire some more computer people someday it would be worthwhile. > Thats a shame :-( . It sort of defeats the object of Boinc. How much work is it buliding the CP client --with-boinc? Dave.
3) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 4681) Posted 26 Sep 2004 by old_user15302 Post: > we would need a Solaris box and proper C++ & Fortran compilers, which > unfortunately we lack. At one point Sun UK was going to donate a box but I > never heard again. We never seem to get "freebies" -- probably because this > climate model doesn't make any computers look like "speed demons!" :-) > There's a lot of things I'd like to do such as Solaris & AMD64 CPDN > clients but unfortunately due to lack of resources (hardware & money for > software i.e. compilers) it seems doubtful they'll get done. You can download a free 30 day trial of C++ and Fortran compilers from here. http://www.apogee.com/download.html If you need access to our Blade I am sure I can let you access it via the net. let me know if you want to try it out
4) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 4680) Posted 26 Sep 2004 by old_user15302 Post: > we would need a Solaris box and proper C++ & Fortran compilers, which > unfortunately we lack. At one point Sun UK was going to donate a box but I > never heard again. We never seem to get "freebies" -- probably because this > climate model doesn't make any computers look like "speed demons!" :-) > There's a lot of things I'd like to do such as Solaris & AMD64 CPDN > clients but unfortunately due to lack of resources (hardware & money for > software i.e. compilers) it seems doubtful they'll get done. >
5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 4676) Posted 26 Sep 2004 by old_user15302 Post: I got the Solaris Boinc running on a Blade 100 by downloading from here http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.php I then sorted out the gcc libraries and it started to run so I entered the URL and my account id but the client responded platform 'Sun-sparc-solaris-2.7' not found Can someone tell me how to get this platform added please? Dave Bamford.