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Labinopper
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 5, 2013 Post Count: 74 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I've been doing alot of research in my spare time at investing in some cheapish hardware to do some crunching for WCG and I was wondering whether anybody has used a Parallella board yet for crunching? From what I can find out Parallella boards have been shipped to early backers from Kickstarter, and there has been a LOT of talk about Parallella boards and BOINC, but I haven't been able to find any stats from people who have used them, so if anybody has, could they atleast give estimates on the average runtime per result, or even if they are compatible with BOINC
----------------------------------------For those who don't know what they are, they are basically a 16core board for $99, I think each core only works at 1GHz, but even so, its got to be the best cost per result, as to build a new computer or serverrack would just be extremely expensive Link for the Parallella boards which the technical specs http://adapteva.myshopify.com/products/parallella-16 Thanks guys! =D  |
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Former Member
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Hello Labinopper,
 The only ARM code project we are running is on Android, not Linux. You are supposed to write your own Linux ARM code to run on Parallella! This is a complete non-starter for WCG. We run x86 code for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Mac PPC code is practically dead. We have just started running Android on ARM code. Linux ARM code would have to catch on in the mobile market, replacing the Ipads and Nexus tablets before we could consider it. Android (derived from Linux) is so solidly emplaced in this market that I can not believe that Linux has a chance. Just my opinion. Lawrence |
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Former Member
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I'm not sure how does it work but since boinc client is ported for arm in a lot of GNU/ linux flavours, isn't it possible to run Android work units on an arm board without the specific OS ?
----------------------------------------There are a lot of homeservers / routers / NAS / HTPC which can be used to crunch, starting with the thousands of Raspberry Pi. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 10, 2013 7:45:47 PM] |
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Former Member
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Hello minamoto,
isn't it possible to run Android work units on an arm board without the specific OS ? Running code requires that it be 'ported' to a specific OS. If a systems programmer is familiar with ARM code and Linux / Android, then it is probably not very difficult. Otherwise, it is horrendously slow and troublesome. All in all, it could probably be done for less than a million dollars. Or maybe a group of volunteers could be found. I do not expect to see it soon. Most work on ARM code is on Android OS, which is why Windows RT OS (also on ARM code) is failing.Lawrence |
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Former Member
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Rasp-Pi actually has a few BOINC projects ported to it. Not sure but the BOINC Manager, when selecting a project from the pick list, has icons of all the platforms a project supports. Just visiting that list, notice a few projects with a Red badge-like icon I do not know such as NFS@Home.. maybe that's Raspberry, IDK.
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Glen David Short
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New version BOINC 7.4 supports Parallella http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes
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