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Former Member
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Is this agent only supported on INTEL chips?
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Never mind..When I went to the Join Now screen it says LINUX(Intel)...
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We are examining the possiblity of porting it to other platforms as well. However, for right now it is only Linux/x86.
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In case it's a factor, I can tell you that we have a *lot* of very powerful hardware that would be cranking out points with a PPC-Linux agent.
 If they're working on a Mac (PPC) port, and they've done an x86-Linux port, somewhere between the two it shouldn't be too hard to squeeze out a PPC-Linux port. And I bet it would run (without TOO much difficulty) as an RPM under AIX. That opens up a LOT of test lab hardware ... -Troy |
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We are examining the possiblity of porting it to other platforms as well. However, for right now it is only Linux/x86. Kevin when u say x86 and the other forum member says intel only are you both on the "same page" ie my question is does wcg x 86 mean - include amd dual core. i dont expect this to be a problem but i would like to know for sure b4 i buy a box that is 99% for wcg linux client.. i guess i am asking : has anyone out there got it up and runing on amd dual core and with wot distro? cheers |
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knreed
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We are saying x86 becuase that should include all flavors of AMD's chips including the dual core. I just checked our database and nobody has attached with a dual core chip yet so I can't say for certain that it will work, however, I do not see any reason why Linux on a dual core chip wouldn't work. Let us know how it goes!
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Former Member
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Hmm.. Looks like I have a job to do today. AMD Dual core Linux testing!
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Former Member
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http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=4435
Seems like someone already beat me to it. AMD x2 Running Suse. |
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So now that I've looked into BOINC a bit more, it's clear to me that supporting Linux on PowerPC should be pretty easy.
If WCG just compiled the work unit source for PowerPC, then a PowerPC BOINC agent could download and run it. Ahem... Guinea pig volunteering... :-) |
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Is there anything we can do to get the Linux POWER client asap?
porting, testing .... ? There a quite a number of blade centers out there ... well equipped ... if they could run for WCG  |
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