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Emilio Lopez
Cruncher Joined: Nov 23, 2005 Post Count: 18 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Please excuse me if this question was asked in a previous post.
I recently purchased a raspberry pi 2. This device has a quad core at 900mhz and 1 GB or ram. it runs on low power. I would like to use it to have it run WCG 24/7 as it won't use much electricity. With the increasing electric prices, i will be forced soon to stop contributing. I would like to find an alternative, cheap alternative as cheap beer :) by cheap i mean cheap electrical foot print and also RBP 2 has a low environmental footprint. I have managed to install WCG on on but it won't run it. can we get some development on this GPU. I don't believe it would be too hard as WCG is running on smart phones now and RBP 2 has a similar GPU used on phones. thank you in advance, |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The raspeberry pie 2 device is pretty weak. Plus I am not sure there are many WCG users or potential WCG users with one to justify the development (among other things).
----------------------------------------You could run WCG just on some hours a day. What is the CPU of your computer?  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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Eric_Kaiser
Veteran Cruncher Germany (Hessen) Joined: May 7, 2013 Post Count: 1047 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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WCG is not running on a raspberry pi 2 or any other device running linux on an arm processor.
----------------------------------------There are no applications available that support linux on arm. The only support for arm is running android. At the moment you can only run OET on android. I didn't count FAH because it has ended.  |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Scientists haven't ported GPU apps on WCG...let alone extra devices like R PIs!
----------------------------------------Also keep in mind that WCG version of BOINC doesn't support R PIs...maybe with next version? ;) |
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Former Member
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Can install Android on pi:s and there is Boinc app for Android.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There is a BOINC app for Android. Check the Play Store.
----------------------------------------- AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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roberto_sc
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Over 8 million Pi's were sold in 4 years. ARM processors are getting more and more powerful. The Pi has a good points/watt relation.
Has anyone successfully ran WCG projects on this android app on a Pi? |
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SekeRob
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You can see that over at BOINCStats under the Host CPU and Host OS breakdown sections... there's like 10,000 variations [no longer do Androids get summarized since something on their servers broke]
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