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Former Member
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I'm looking to buy an IBM PowerPC with Redhat linux installed.
Will World Community grid have a client to run on PowerPC under linux? PowerPC and World Community Grid are both controlled by IBM. |
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A while back I loaded Fedora PPC on a older dual cpu G5 Mac. I loaded boinc from the default yum repo. When you open boinc for the first time you get a list of projects to choose from. I tried every project in the default list and found not one that supports PPC-linux32 or PPC-linux64.
WCG has never supported this platform and I doubt it ever will. It's just not worth the effort.  my 2 cents |
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Former Member
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Hello SpryMed,
WCG only supports the Mac PPC. Even for that platform, the small number of members using it has kept us from supporting it for every project. Unless the number of Linux PPC users increases massively, we will not support it. Sorry, Lawrence |
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If it is truly PowerPC, I don't think it is supported. But if it was a Power5 or Power6 chip and you had access to the PowerVM software, you could run the Linux86 emulater that allows you to run x86 Linux apps on the Power architecture. I've been meaning to try it but haven't had a chance to create a LINUX LPAR and set it up...I was mainly interested in getting a BOINC benchmark on the Power 6 chip with and without Simultaneous Multithreading turned on
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Dotsch
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SIMAP, SETI and Superlink are the only BOINC projects which supports Linux on PowerPC.
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