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It would appear Boinc will run on intel-based macs, but there's no intel build of the workload. The powerpc-apple-darwin build will run under PPC/Rosetta emulation, but takes a severe performance hit for it (benchmarks 212 MIPS @ floating-point, 788 MIPS @ integer). Running natively returns:
Mon May 1 19:59:08 2006|World Community Grid|Message from server: platform 'i686-apple-darwin' not found Mon May 1 19:59:08 2006|World Community Grid|No work from project The migration path is detailed at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/mac_build.html (scroll to Building Project Applications / Updating applications for Macs with Intel processors) Is this anything we're likely to see soon? Number crunching under processor emulation wastes a lot of resources. |
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Hello ShaunO,
Looking at Rosetta@home, I see http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=1275#15219 So I would say - not soon, but there may be hope eventually. Lawrence |
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A little speculation:
I expect the next supported platforms to be native 64bit, and Mac Intel. However, there's no rush about this. WCG will do it when there are enough machines out there. In a year or two, the computing landscape will have changed, and it will easily be worth the investment in these platforms. |
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