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1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Boinc 4.37 and Mac (Panther and Tiger) (Message 20378) Posted 17 Feb 2006 by old_user344 Post: I see I\'m using Boinc Manager 4.44 -- but there\'s a v5.2.13 available tonight at the UCBerkeley download page. I\'m seven percent into a \'Sulfur Cycle\' that will finish up, around, let me see, yeah, about when hell freezes over, at this rate (grin). I realize partial work is useful so I\'m keeping it running (OSX 10.3.9, 900mnz G3), learned that tonight in the forums. What about the Boinc version -- is it possible to halt, or pause, a work cycle in order to update the Boinc software? IF so, will it work on this old G3, and do I need to download the \'extra applications first\' as the site warns? I\'ve just left it running and not paid attention for several months, now catching up on current events and finding I\'m puzzled.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 20375) Posted 17 Feb 2006 by old_user344 Post: > no visualization program is provided right now for Mac; I\'m using OSX 10.3.9, a 900mhz G3 \"Pismo\" (aftermarket CPU). I have the visualization. First select the Work tab. Next select the line of text in the window that begins under \"Project\" Now click to the left on the button \"Show Graphics\" I\'m using Boinc Manager 4.43. Now, my questions: My CPU use is just reaching 500 hours My Progress is at 7.38 percent To completion: 6208 hours Report deadline: Dec. 7th I leave it running most of the time, but I don\'t think I\'m going to be done with this run by the report deadline. Is what\'s running going to be of any use to CPN, even if it doesn\'t finish by the deadline? And I\'ve got to tell you, looking at the globe in the visualization window is darned spooky -- mine is showing areas that are upwards of 40 degrees C plus and minus, per the bar chart. It has a distinct \"wrong planet\" feel about it. Is this an odd thing to be seeing at this point? (feel free to point me to another thread, I don\'t visit the forums often enough).
3) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : MAC visualisation beta testers wanted... (Message 11186) Posted 20 Mar 2005 by old_user344 Post: MAC as in Mac? Macintosh? Email sent. Commenting here too -- I'm willing, though I've got a slow one -- 900mhz G3, a "Pismo" laptop with an aftermarket CPU, and it's still grinding away on my first chunk (after losing an early attempt somehow). I'm at Phase 1, Timestep 165733 of 259248, Run ID 3p7q_100194380, CPU time 0634:09:44 (13.77 s/TS) Whatever that means. I gather it's progressing at slightly faster than the actual climate is changing, but not a whole lot faster (grin). I'd come here to ask when I might hope to see anything besides the starfield on the VIZ window -- I gather there's nothing yet to display. > > Cheers, > > Colin >
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : \"a new version (4.19) ... is available ...\" -- what do I do about that? (Message 9261) Posted 13 Feb 2005 by old_user344 Post: > It is available from the 'model download' page on the left. > > As to whether you should upgrade, you might like to read <a> href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=1722">this > thread.</a>. > The 4.2x version will have more changes, and will probably come out next > month. > OK, I'd already jumped ahead and dropped 4.19 in, and called it. I followed the link you posted there and didn't notice it's in the Linux thread when I posted my experience. Let me know if I should copy that question back. Basically comparing the lines recalculated, I see slightly different numbers, and wonder if that's OK. > Edited
5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : boinc client version 4.19 (Message 9260) Posted 13 Feb 2005 by old_user344 Post: Oops. I should've put this in the OSX area, I followed a link from there to this thread without noticing the difference in platforms. Move if appropriate, hosts, please. I did the same thing (got 4.19, dropped it in place of 4.13, called it from within the Terminal window I'd halted, as you can see in quoted stuff); with OSX; here's the result with my question whether I'm getting expected results from the calculations that are getting repeated: interrupted with control-C ^C 2005-02-13 10:57:12 [---] Received signal 2 2005-02-13 10:57:13 [---] Exit requested by user > dropped the new release of the application into /Applications, dragged icon to paused Terminal > The new version was detected Hank:~ hank$ /Applications/boinc_4.19_ppcG3 2005-02-13 10:58:42 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.19 for powerpc-apple-darwin 2005-02-13 10:58:42 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2005-02-13 10:58:42 [---] Version Change Detected (4.13 -> 4.19); running CPU benchmarks 2005-02-13 10:58:42 [climateprediction.net] Host ID is 91254 2005-02-13 10:58:42 [---] General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2004-08-09 08:46:08) 2005-02-13 10:58:42 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2005-02-13 10:58:42 [---] Running CPU benchmarks 2005-02-13 10:59:43 [---] Benchmark results: 2005-02-13 10:59:43 [---] Number of CPUs: 1 2005-02-13 10:59:43 [---] 779 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 2005-02-13 10:59:43 [---] 1447 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 2005-02-13 10:59:43 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks 2005-02-13 10:59:44 [climateprediction.net] Resuming computation for result 3p7q_100194380_1 using hadsm3 version 4.03 Starting model in /Users/hank/projects/climateprediction.net... Created shared memory region key = 25460 Env Used=DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/hank/projects/climateprediction.net:../ Starting model ID 3p7q_100194380 Phase 1 Stack size=48.00 MB Waiting for model startup, this may take a minute... 3p7q_100194380 - PH 1 TS 033553 - 10/11/1812 00:30 - H:M:S=0129:04:33 AVG=13.85 DLT= 0.00
6) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : im a computer moron (Message 9259) Posted 13 Feb 2005 by old_user344 Post: Kenneth, there's an answer available as a followup, in the place you asked the question: > I got a window asking which application > to use for opening it, and that's where I'm stuck. No one has yet responded > to the question I posted on Jan. 27 about this. > Grace & peace, > Kenneth Brewster > You're seeing the Mac OS graphics interface -- asking you if you know of a program that would run 'boinc' for you -- but you know there is no program that will open it for you. It's a "command line" tool right now, no pretty interface. Instead you open the Terminal, and drag the icon of the boinc application into the window. See the thread you started for more detail. All the fancy windowingof OSX is doing is when you drag the icno into the Terminal window, it reads out the full path the same way you'd type it in by hand. Mine right now is /Applications/boinc_4.13 (I shortened the name on the icon, which used to be much longer == that doesn't hurt). So I either drag the icon to the Terminal window, or else I just copy /Applications/boinc_4.13 from a handy text file and paste it into the Terminal window, and hit Enter. ---> The officially posted explanation also mentions one extra step needed if you use Safari, which might be part of what's troubling you: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/client_mac.php (the version numbers are outdated; the info is still right)
7) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : \"a new version (4.19) ... is available ...\" -- what do I do about that? (Message 9257) Posted 13 Feb 2005 by old_user344 Post: I noticed this in among the long list of steps in the Terminal window: 2005-02-13 02:17:36 [climateprediction.net] Message from server: A new version (4.19) of the BOINC core client is available from this project's web site. --- Searching here led me to this but it seems only vaguely related: http://members.dslextreme.com/~readerforum/forum_team/boinc.html it does seem to be offering a "4.19" for my G3 processor -- but I don't know if "this project's web site" means Boinc, or Climate Prediction, and suspect I've just fallen into a maze of twisty little messages, all alike. Anything I need to do about a new version (4.19)? I'm using OSX, the new 10.3.8 release; Powerbook G3 900 mhz aftermarket CPU, and 1024 mb of RAM. Slow, I know, but what the heck, it still runs ...
8) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Can\'t get it to install (Message 7692) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by old_user344 Post: Just back after many months and after doing a fresh reinstall of 10.3 and update to 10.3.7. And it just worked -- I already had my account set up here; I made a folder, dropped the folder on the terminal line, watched it set itself up in /Users/... making the appropriate subdirectory, and that's all it took. The app is running, the visualization is running -- smooth. Thanks for taking care of us drop-and-duh users
9) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Can\'t get it to install (Message 680) Posted 10 Aug 2004 by old_user344 Post: > <a href="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/client_unix.php">Installing and running the > BOINC command-line client (BOINC Docs)</a> > > <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/pauldbuck/site-boinc/faq/faq-over.html">BOINC > FAQ by Paul D. Buck</a> I've looked at the references Jens left (thank you!). They lead eventually back to info about SETI@home -- which I have been running successfully for quite a while. But I have not yet gotten the climateprediction setup working. Mac OSX, Powerbook G3, 900mhz (that's an aftermarket CPU); 1024 mb RAM, 24 GB free on the hard drive. I realize this may just not work -- beta testing, so I suppose that it may work, even though a faster G4 would be better. I got as far as: opening from the command line in Terminal, after having logged in with my web browser (Firefox) to set personal Preferences -- setting for 10GB hard drive space to use and to keep half the available drive space free. I've mailed crash logs to climateprediction help. But I'm wondering -- is SETI@home a possible conflict? I realize SETI@home must have installed a version of Boinc somewhere, under some name -- but I have no idea. Should I try uninstalling SETI@home, to be able to run the climateprediction beta test? NOTE, I'll be offline five days (botany fieldwork, my outdoor hobby) so no rush, I just wanted to toss this question in before going offline. Since I don't have the beta running, I'll take the computer with me this time.

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