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Former Member
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Anyone ever get BOINC to work on FreeBSD + WCG? Just wondering, I kinda gave up and installed debian on the boxes I was going to use.
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Former Member
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Hi Chase,
I hung back awhile to see if any of the admins would speak up... Guess we got our answer. Lemme dig up the thread that was running a few weeks back, case you never read it... http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=5322 Last post in there was from geonap, so scroll to the end and pay special attention to the line just above his signature. I'm trying to dig into the issue considering boinc & FreeBSD have more than a few things in common (like coming from the same campus) & (time allowing me to find the right strings and pull on them) but otherwise looks like the servers are pointing stricktly to Linux at the time... Solving shouldn't take much - have a cryptographer handy?  CSW Edited to tweak the url, hopefully... |
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Former Member
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Oooh, I never saw that thread, I did post on this subject before also...check out what I've posted:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=4907#38145 and http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=4909#38297 Basically, I started with the problem of BOINC saying I have 1 CPU and no memory, I fixed that by downloading the CVS and building it myself, then everything worked just fine with BOINC but I ended up getting an error from WCG saying that it doesn't have work for my platform, so when I brandelf it then BOINC wont start it says: Segmentation Fault: 11 (core dump) That's as far as I got...what options did you build with? Also I knowticed that in your post that it says Number of CPUs: 2 and then at the bottom is says 1...? |
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Former Member
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Chase, yeah, I saw those posts and basically followed in your footsteps. I didn't get as far though. That's why I was waiting for the admins to answer (it's been 3-4 days already? whew!)... I also pointed to those posts you're talking about towards the end of this:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=5369 ...and from the looks of [some of the other] issues they're having, they could use all the help they can get. Wish whoever bankrolls this topend would get a little more talent behind it. So I don't know if: a) There's more 'power' available than work to crunch, or... b) Implementation of the 'features' (i.e. new/patched software) on their servers is overwhelming them... Patience! Patience! and in the meantime, maybe we could waste our time with dual-boot systems  CSW |
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I have been looking at BOINCstats: http://www.boincstats.com/stats/host_os_stats.php?pr=bo&st=0&to=100
There are 1006 hosts running FreeBSD for active projects, but many projects do not have any FreeBSD hosts. In fact only two are listed for FreeBSD. WCG: 0 Rosetta@home: 0 Einstein@Home: 8 SETI@Home: 1,286 (! ??) There is something strange about 1,286 + 8 = 1,006. But the conclusion seems to be that BOINC is only running on FreeBSD for SETI & Einstein. mycrofth |
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BOINC can work on FreeBSD (it's one of the packages, but only in the 4.x flavor) but WCG requires SSH, so I assume that is why SETI@Home is running so many FreeBSDs and hardly any one else is....getting 5.x or 4.x to work wasn't a problem for me, WCG not recognizing it as a valid OS and sending linux work units is MY problem. I know there's a way to use brandelf to get 5.x to "emulate" linux but I'm not that skilled to troubleshoot my error message :)
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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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Each BOINC project needs to either provide a science application binary for each platform that particular project supports or they need to make the source available and allow 'anonymous' platforms.
----------------------------------------Both the Human Proteome Folding project and the Fight@Home project involve a science application from either ISB or Scripps respectively that is licensed software that requires us not to distribute the source code. As such we cannot make the source code available for those projects and therefore cannot accept 'anonymous' platforms (this means we cannot let you download and compile the code yourself). We do not have plans to provide a BSD Binary. The next platforrm under consideration is darwin-ppc (Mac OS X on PowerPC). The server knows that there is not a BSD (or any other platform besides Windows on x86 and Linux on x86) and it will return an error message if a agent from that platform connects and attempts to retrieve work. [Edit 1 times, last edit by knreed at Jan 13, 2006 2:12:26 PM] |
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Ah - gracious appreciation for the explanitorium (<- that's not a word), some cobweb way back in the brain must have been dangling that 'licensing' thing out there for me to grasp but I somehow missed it. Shame on me - now I have to go read up on the GPL and absorb the intricacies of how licensed code and open source software co-exist (would groklaw.org be a good reference?)... Knoppix is a popular flavor these days - maybe give that a shot...
THANKS knreed & mycrofth, et.al. P.S. Any word on the Win2000 FA@H graphics crashes? One of my machines (Matrox G400) started blue screening so I pulled it down, been working fine up till recent... |
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sheesh! the LGPL... Right there in black & (*some* color)... *nix it is then.
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Each BOINC project needs to either provide a science application binary for each platform that particular project supports or they need to make the source available and allow 'anonymous' platforms. Maybee no sources are needed. I have sucessfully managed the linux client(einstein@home) to work on FreeBSD. The client from einstein isn't OSS, so i tryed to run it in linux-compat and it works. The way is to brandelf the binary as linux elf and send it to freebsd-clients. The clients must have linux-compat installed. CU Martin |
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