Posts by old_user28727

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Feeling betrayed.... (Message 22284) Posted 22 Apr 2006 by old_user28727 Post: LesBayliss: Nevertheless, einstein@home and seti@home are offering clients even for the new Intel-version of MacOSX. I am convinced, that projects like Rosetta@home, Folding@home and other \"proteine-crunchers\" etc. will follow quickly. There are millions of powerful Macs available on this planet, which can offer a lot of crunching power. I am not a programmer, but I was told that there is at least one powerful Fortran-compiler available for MacOSX. What has made me angry is the fact, that people taking part in climateprediction.net have to fulfill the highest standards of all currently available projects. 24 hours runtime around the clock all over the year, 1 GB memory and more, only the strongest cpus, several gigabytes of harddisk-space and so forth. On the other hand a pitifull small project staff without enough fundation.That\'s really poor !
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Feeling betrayed.... (Message 22151) Posted 17 Apr 2006 by old_user28727 Post: Carl: I don\'t blame anybody here. Nevertheless the Mac-support was poor right from the beginning. One model after the other crashed again and again for months. Now there isn\'t any work left for the Apple-platform - surprise, surprise! Okay, but why did you ever try to support MacOSX ? A clear statement right from the beginning would have been the correct way to treat things. And I wouldn\'t have spent money for electricity consumption, while crunching for climateprediction.net. Einstein@home f.e. needs every cruncher the project can get. Moreover, you want people to run your models for four months and longer round the clock using powerful cpus. I am convinced, that the developing and programming of such complex models is very complicated and time-intensive. Therefore it doesn\'t make any sense, that this is done by only two programmers and an obviously low budget. Tell your leading staff that they cannot drink champaigne and pay only for mineral water. This is the main reason why I don\'t trust the efforts of your project any longer. Good luck for the future - you will need it !
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Feeling betrayed.... (Message 22113) Posted 17 Apr 2006 by old_user28727 Post: As a reaction, I deleted the sulphur cycle model on my PowerMac G5 after running for about 50 %. Only two bad paid programmers are not enough for such a complex distributed computing project. Moreover, the project\'s budget limitations don\'t seem to allow a professional attitude. There are enough other projects on the market (f.e. einstein@home, seti@home, rosetta@home etc.), which urgently need the crunching power of Apple cpus too. Okay, have it your way then !
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Model hasn\'t started (Message 17924) Posted 9 Dec 2005 by old_user28727 Post: I\'m running BOINC 5.2.13 and sulphur_cycle 4.21. About 9 percents are completed now on my PowerMac G5 1,8 Ghz FSB 600. I didn\'t use the graphics yet, because I am afraid of client errors. Except for this the client seems to work correcty.
5) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : My mac never completes a work (Message 17677) Posted 3 Dec 2005 by old_user28727 Post: tgordi: Did you upgrade to Boinc 5.2.13 ?
6) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Client errors (Message 17624) Posted 1 Dec 2005 by old_user28727 Post: [/quote] I understand your position but I don\'t quite see how you\'re going to persuade 10-20 thousand users to adopt some software that doesn\'t work. Perhaps it would be better to make it clear that the Macintosh platform is not supported and leave it at that. [/quote] I agree with you. At the moment I\'m running a cpdn-sulphur model and einstein@home at the same time (50 : 50) on my Power Mac G5 1,8 Ghz Single FSB 600. Let\'s wait for some more weeks, so that the programmers can search for the bug. As far as I know the source code for Linux is very similar to the MacOSX-version. Besides of that cpdn is the only project that crashes regularly while running on my G5. seti@home, einstein@home and rosetta@home donâ€˜t have any problems. If the programmers need machines for testing a new MacOSX-client they should send an email to the users. Thus the beta-testers wouldn\'t become frustrated about so many crashing models and detach from project.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : sulphur version 4.22 released (Message 17620) Posted 1 Dec 2005 by old_user28727 Post: All sulphur models on my PowerMac G5 running MacOSX 10.3.9 Panther have crashed too. I have updated to BOINC-manager 5.2.13 and hope for a better future.