[gentoo-amd64] BOINC

[gentoo-amd64] BOINC

[Neil Stone]

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Does anyone on this list use BOINC on AMD64 systems ??

I am trying to use is but getting a mesage about my platform not being
supported...

Ideas anyone ?

Neil
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] BOINC

[Taka John Brunkhorst]

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You can use x86 clients(binary), I heard that native x86-_64 are not 
supported yet
http://boinc.us.tt/



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Re: [gentoo-amd64] BOINC

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

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On Monday 19 September 2005 00:30, Neil Stone wrote:
> Does anyone on this list use BOINC on AMD64 systems ??
>
> I am trying to use is but getting a mesage about my platform not being
> supported...
>
> Ideas anyone ?
>
I am using it, and maintaining it... It is pretty fragile right now, and I 
think I know how to improve it once I get time to sit down with the ebuilds 
and take a look. You want to emerge boinc, then attach to a project. It will 
cry about no platform, then stop it. Then emerge setiathome-4.18 (I think) 
and start boinc after that is done.

You should be crunching away, it works here but I am open to feedback. I will 
be adding some updated ebuilds to automate this more - it is a bug. If you 
emerge setiathome first then when you attach to setiathome it deletes the 
binary client you just built and complains there isn't one! The latest 
snapshots unfortunately do not build here either.

I am a little busy right now, but I will get to it. If you come up with any 
solutions/suggestions then please post them here or to bugzilla.

Thanks,

Marcus
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] BOINC

[Steve Herber]

Marcus:

Boinc on my amd64 system has been crunching away for the past few months, 
once I converted over from the setiathome Classic system.  Your ebuilds
have been great.  Thanks!

I see that you also maintaining the setiathome ebuild.  The package builds
and runs and for that I also thank you.

Do you know if anyone has figured out why the amd64 performance is so
low and if there is a plan to improve it?  In my move from Classic to
Boinc my two amd xp systems keep crunching away.  I am tempted to turn
off my amd64 version because the performance is so embarrassingly slow.
I hope there is some good news in that area.

Thank you for all your work!

Steve Herber	herber@thing.com		work: 206-221-7262
Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services	home: 425-454-2399

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:

> On Monday 19 September 2005 00:30, Neil Stone wrote:
>> Does anyone on this list use BOINC on AMD64 systems ??
>>
>> I am trying to use is but getting a mesage about my platform not being
>> supported...
>>
>> Ideas anyone ?
>>
> I am using it, and maintaining it... It is pretty fragile right now, and I
> think I know how to improve it once I get time to sit down with the ebuilds
> and take a look. You want to emerge boinc, then attach to a project. It will
> cry about no platform, then stop it. Then emerge setiathome-4.18 (I think)
> and start boinc after that is done.
>
> You should be crunching away, it works here but I am open to feedback. I will
> be adding some updated ebuilds to automate this more - it is a bug. If you
> emerge setiathome first then when you attach to setiathome it deletes the
> binary client you just built and complains there isn't one! The latest
> snapshots unfortunately do not build here either.
>
> I am a little busy right now, but I will get to it. If you come up with any
> solutions/suggestions then please post them here or to bugzilla.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
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>
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] BOINC

[Vincent ETIENNE]

Le Lundi 19 Septembre 2005 01:30, Neil Stone a écrit :
> Does anyone on this list use BOINC on AMD64 systems ??
>
> I am trying to use is but getting a mesage about my platform not being
> supported...
>
> Ideas anyone ?
>
> Neil

If you use SETI for example that's normal. They don"t compile a seti client 
for amd64 ( that's why it says unsupported platform ) but you can download 
a precompiled seti client and chage apps.xml and it will works.

I use the seti client found at http://www.pperry.f2s.com/ It's "optimized" for 
amd64 ( or less sub optimized than the one you will usally be able  to 
compile ) for more than one week without problem

You will also found notes of how to proceed ( but that's pretty simple : just 
2 files to copy, the binary one and the xml description )

Vincent


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[gentoo-amd64] boinc

[Dieter Ries]

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hi,

i had boinc 5.2.something running on my gentoo machine here for a long time, 
now i got my now dualcore, and this version didnt really support it well, so 
i decided to emerge a newer version, but now i cant get work because 64bit is 
notsuppported there.

the first installation i had was made from the official binary, but i thinnnk 
there must be a way to do this in gentoo style.

is there any?

cu
Dieter
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] boinc

[Steve Herber]

I hope something gets worked out.  I also had boinc/setiathome running on 
my amd64 system but it broke when seti released a new version of their 
software.  The portage versions have not kept up with seti and I tried to 
create a local overlay to try new versions but ended up with the 
unsupported version problem.  I just don't understand what needs to be 
changed to get it to work again.  I wish someone with more understanding 
could get gentoo to support amd64.  (Yes, there is probably a fix buried 
somewhere in the forums or in a bug report, but they are still work 
around for the fact that emerge setiathome fails to create a viable 
system on amd64.)

Good luck.

Steve Herber	herber@thing.com		work: 206-221-7262
Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services	home: 425-454-2399

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Dieter Ries wrote:

> hi,
>
> i had boinc 5.2.something running on my gentoo machine here for a long time,
> now i got my now dualcore, and this version didnt really support it well, so
> i decided to emerge a newer version, but now i cant get work because 64bit is
> notsuppported there.
>
> the first installation i had was made from the official binary, but i thinnnk
> there must be a way to do this in gentoo style.
>
> is there any?
>
> cu
> Dieter
> -- 
> Frank Castle is dead!
> Call me 'The PUNISHER'!
>
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] boinc

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 22:19, Steve Herber wrote:

> I just don't understand what needs to be changed to get it to work again. 

I had difficulty months ago trying to sign up to more than one project, and 
ever since then I've ignored the Gentoo package and just used a file 
downloaded from the BOINC Web site. That way, at least I can keep control 
of where the files are stored and which user owns them.

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