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Zoot Nerper
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Hi Folks,
Not a serious question, just one of interest. I upgraded Ubuntu Feisty to Gutsy on 4 machines of varying ages and specs. The 3 older machines I upgraded 32Bit to 32Bit, but my main machine with a Core2 Duo processor I risked an new install of the 64Bit version of Gutsy. No problems. I installed Boinc using the Add/remove, I have no idea if this is the 32Bit or 64Bit version of Boinc (I think there is one of the latter somewhere). Anyway, my older machines display the "usual" one (or two) running processes and the two or three jobs "ready to start". However, the 64Bit machine shows six or seven "ready to start" (whereas when 32Bit Feisty it did not. Also. this machine and two older are connected to the Internet via the same router) Why is this? (I'm just interested) Now while I'm on 64Bit.... 1) is there a 64Bit Boinc and does it come with 64Bit Gutsy? 2) Is a Pentium D 64Bit? I think it supports 64Bit but being ignorant I don't know if this means it will run 64Bit. If it is I may upgrade my Pentium D machine. Cheers, -- Zoot |
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Former Member
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Hello!
Yes there is 64bit boinc client http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php And the Pentium D supports Intel EM64T See ya ^^ |
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Former Member
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Hello Zoot Nerper,
I am not a Linux expert, so I will tell you what I know. All our applications are 32-bit, so you have to be sure that you have the proper 32-bit libraries for Ubuntu Gutsy. The new Pentium D is a Core 2 Duo with smaller than normal cache (think of it as a Core 2 Celeron  ) so it can run a 64-bit OS.Lawrence |
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Zoot Nerper
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Thanks for the information.
As to Boinc being 32Bit - I added it through the Ubuntu repositories (rather than downloading from the Boinc website) which I believe means it also adds the things that Boinc is dependent on if they are not already there (like 32Bit libraries) So, whether it's 32Bit or not I don't know. Anyway it works! I had read about a 64 bit version some time ago, but for the life of me I couldn't find it once I had Gutsy The Boinc I'm running is 5.10.8 (should have mentioned this last night), which by the list of those available seems a bit out of date. And I guess not 64Bit. Thanks for the info on the Pentium D -- Zoot |
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Former Member
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There is a 64-bit agent (you're using it if you installed from repos), but with WCG the programs that do the processing are 32-bit so there's no performance increase.
The agent queues work units for a certain amount of time, so faster machines will queue more. You can get 30 or 40 by telling a quad-core to queue multiple days' worth. |
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Skip Da Shu
Cruncher Republic of Texas Joined: Jan 27, 2007 Post Count: 21 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks for the information. As to Boinc being 32Bit - I added it through the Ubuntu repositories (rather than downloading from the Boinc website) which I believe means it also adds the things that Boinc is dependent on if they are not already there (like 32Bit libraries) So, whether it's 32Bit or not I don't know. Anyway it works! I had read about a 64 bit version some time ago, but for the life of me I couldn't find it once I had Gutsy The Boinc I'm running is 5.10.8 (should have mentioned this last night), which by the list of those available seems a bit out of date. And I guess not 64Bit. Thanks for the info on the Pentium D -- Zoot I did apt-get boinc-client boinc-managerafter I installed Gutsy 64bit and I believe what I have is the 5.10.8 64 bit BOINC but I do NOT think Debian or Ubuntu 64 bit installs the 32 bit libs... this is not real knowledge but stuff I've read. If you installed Gutsy 64 and did the install the same way please let me know if you get the WCG app to work. I didn't... but man does it smoke on ABC;-) I assumed the failure was due to the lack of 32bit libs. I'll try it again now.
- da shu @ the house
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Skip Da Shu
Cruncher Republic of Texas Joined: Jan 27, 2007 Post Count: 21 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I assumed the failure was due to the lack of 32bit libs. I'll try it again now. Thu 15 Nov 2007 11:12:51 PM CST|World Community Grid|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result dddt0201e0286_ZINC07952581-0000_00_0 (process exited with code 22 (0x16, -234)) I got this on WCG and Pirates. Can anyone tell me if this is due to lack of 32bit libs?
- da shu @ the house
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Sekerob
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Hi Skip,
----------------------------------------Tihs thread http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=16547#130757 reports the same error and BobCat13 provides a command to get the 32 bit libs in place. let us know if this has the snow in sun effect. cheers
WCG
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Zoot Nerper
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Hi,
I loaded the 32bit libs while installing other programs that had the libs as dependancies. Before doing this Boinc would return a computational error on starting a task. For some reason Boinc installed via the synaptic package manager didn't do this (the add/remove packages only installs the Boinc Manager and NO client software). I found this:The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" at: http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_ubuntu_gutsy_gibbon_p4 (p1-3 aren't of much use). I installed quite a few of the suggestions and one, somewhere down the line, needed the libs. I think Skype is 32bit Realplayer too. You can search the Synaptic Package Manager for: ia32-libs and install there. (obviously faster than my previous method, but I am pretty new to Ubuntu and Linux so went the long way round to find the shorter way in the process.) That's all. -- Zoot |
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Former Member
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Zoot - I run Ubuntu 7.10 64Bit and I can assure you both Boinc-client and Boinc-manager are within the Synaptic Package manager.
I installed both and I assume it must have also installed the 32bit libs as dependencies automatically too, as I have not had any problems. |
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