Posts by old_user58496

1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : CPDN/BOINC on Solaris/SPARC (Message 10089) Posted 28 Feb 2005 by old_user58496 Post: > 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 >