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Thread: BOINC + FreeBSD = Success |
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Sekerob
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WCG and CA's are going out of their way...... a lab machine was set up by Uplinger following your instructions and seemingly succeeded in getting a WU.... Consider it an Alpha Experiment!
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Ok,
Well a lab machine was setup. Then the unthinkable happened, and the processor failed so I have to set up another machine today. Your instructions on setting up the agent were very helpful and it appeared to work initially and the processor failure has nothing to do with the freeBSD installation. (I state this so members do not believe the issue is related as the failure was caused by hardware failure) darkskye, If you are going to set up another freebsd machine, you will need to set it up as a different member ID to get the same workunits. Also, the screen shot below where someone else has received that workunit is me. Going to try the install another machine. -Uplinger |
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Former Member
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I added a 2nd account to test FreeBSD i386 (since the first test was done on FreeBSD amd64) and it seems to be crunching merrily through the same WUs that have been sent already.
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Former Member
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This doesn't look normal to me ...
 Unless there are now 6 FreeBSD hosts running BOINC with with 'hack'  |
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BobCat13
Senior Cruncher Joined: Oct 29, 2005 Post Count: 295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It looks like one of your first Work Units has been reissued to Windows machines. Since your FreeBSD result didn't match the Windows results, it was marked Invalid.
B10696_ 0229_ CTMA3D1-11-24-15 Valid 12/19/2006 03:46:11 12/19/2006 10:36:19 4.60 50 / 45 B10696_ 0229_ CTMA3D1-11-24-15 Valid 12/19/2006 03:43:39 12/19/2006 16:47:31 4.54 38 / 45 B10696_ 0229_ CTMA3D1-11-24-15 Valid 12/19/2006 03:43:33 12/19/2006 11:03:53 4.69 38 / 45 B10696_ 0229_ CTMA3D1-11-24-15 Valid 12/19/2006 03:40:24 12/19/2006 18:50:33 2.41 37 / 45 B10696_ 0229_ CTMA3D1-11-24-15 Valid 12/19/2006 03:39:01 12/19/2006 12:31:34 7.50 49 / 45 B10696_ 0229_ CTMA3D1-11-24-15 Valid 12/19/2006 03:38:45 12/19/2006 11:05:29 6.80 48 / 45 B10696_ 0229_ CTMA3D1-11-24-15 Valid 12/19/2006 03:38:38 12/19/2006 13:12:14 6.30 37 / 45 B10696_ 0229_ CTMA3D1-11-24-15 Invalid 12/07/2006 06:12:57 12/07/2006 13:03:26 5.28 63 / 23 |
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Former Member
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This doesn't look good :(
Is it usual for linux and windows workunits to not match or is this a dead hack? |
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BobCat13
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I don't know if your hack is good or not. I'm guessing what happened was that the scheduler was waiting for 3 users with the same system type, buy since you are likely the only one running FreeBSD it gave up after 11 days and reissued those Work Units to other operating systems . In this case it was reissued to Windows.
I don't think Windows and Linux results match closely enough on WCG to validate against each other. Windows with Windows, Linux with Linux, Mac with Mac, but no mixing of the operating systems. If no one else is going to run FreeBSD with the hack, you would have to setup 3 machines, each one with a different WCG username to actually see if a Work Unit would validate properly. |
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Former Member
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BSD. Hmmmm. Is there a simple preconfigured bootable version similar to DSL or Knoppix? If so, then I'm more than happy to try running it in a VM. I don't know what progress Alther made. I suspect he's been very busy with Decrypthon recently.
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Former Member
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BSD. Hmmmm. Is there a simple preconfigured bootable version similar to DSL or Knoppix? .... Linux Format Mag out of the UK I believe had a bootable "live mode" recent issue of FreeBSD about 4-5 months ago ( could have been issue: FreeBSD CD's from the LXF77 DVD disk). . Their software helps pages are for: Defective DVD support: support@futurenet.co.uk General Support Web: www.futurenet.co.uk also: www.linuxformat.co.uk/forums Hope this helps. PaulT [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 20, 2006 2:14:53 PM] |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Becuase your computer identifies itself as FreeBSD it was not being assigned to the proper type of computer (i.e Linux, Windows, Mac-Intel or Mac-PPC). I'm manually moving those workunits so that your recent results are being matched against Linux computers. I sent out a few extra copies to get those workunits validated quickily so that we can tell if your FreeBSD machine is going to compare correctly with the Linux machines. Those should validate within the next 24 hours.
If they do validate correctly, then we will make the changes permenant so that your FreeBSD machine (and any others) will automatically get work that is compared against Linux machines. thanks for working on this! |
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