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zombie67 [MM]
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I noticed that all my Intel OSX boxes were able to get at least one Beta task, but not so for *any* of my PPC OSX boxes. Were any PPC tasks sent out? Or just Intel at this time?
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Sekerob
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Now, you got us there. Be prepared for PPC not to get support. HPF2 has not been in latest BOINC 6 compatible release either.
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PPC is going by the wayside fast. Even the new version of OSX will not install on a PPC system. If it is a G5 I would sell it on eBay and put it towards a new Intel mac.
Last month I played around with loading Fedora Linux on one of my PPC macs. Then I installed Boinc using yum. From the entire list of projects that show up in Boinc, not one of them support PPC Linux. Not one. I tried them all. Not even SETI! |
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Hi brinktastee,
I think that there are unofficial SETI versions for Linux PPC. Try Google. Lawrence |
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Hi brinktastee, I think that there are unofficial SETI versions for Linux PPC. Try Google. Lawrence I gave up and put OSX back on. |
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zombie67 [MM]
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A little over 25% of the macs on WCG are PPC. As long as the development machines are still around, I see no reason not to compile the PPC app too. In fact, PPC apps can be compiled even on intel macs.
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zombie67 [MM]
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Hi brinktastee, I think that there are unofficial SETI versions for Linux PPC. Try Google. Lawrence Also SIMAP. |
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Sekerob
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Can you point where you got that statistic from, zombie67?
----------------------------------------Mac has about 450 million credit out of 9.8 billion showing on BOINCstats. If 25% of ~5% is ~1.2% and CEP is 1/6th of the projects, it gets to be a very small number to maintain compatibility for and as said, HPF2 was not ported either as a well established science.
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A little over 25% of the macs on WCG are PPC. As long as the development machines are still around, I see no reason not to compile the PPC app too. In fact, PPC apps can be compiled even on Intel macs. 25% of an already small number equals an even smaller number. It's obvious the scientists look at these stats and consider it a waste of their time and resources. |
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zombie67 [MM]
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Can you point where you got that statistic from, zombie67? http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=wcg&view=hosts Hosts by OS chart at the bottom. |
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