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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Any chance of getting an Xbox 360 install program made up? Lots of these things getting out there now, lots of processing power and internet connections setting idle...
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Former Member
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I will go out on a limb and say 'Not in the immediate future'. We have too much to do this year and the number of XBOX 360s is still only a fraction of what it will be. But if some project scientists develop a XBOX 360 version, we would have to seriously consider it.
This is just my personal opinion. I have not heard anything official. Lawrence |
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Former Member
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It's highly unlikely now, and only a vague hope for the future.
Porting to a games platform will require a complete rewrite (some of these science applications are written in FORTRAN and other exotic* languages). In addition, there are numerous complications caused by the architecture. Games consoles are nowhere near as good at general purpose computing as they are at graphics. As far as I know, there is only one serious attempt at porting a science application to a games console, and they haven't got there yet. Maybe they never will. * Okay, old. |
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Former Member
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Linux has been ported to the older version XBox but does require some minor hardware mods. There is a www site ( could be Linuxhareware.org) with pictures and instructions.
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Former Member
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Unfortunately, the original XBox doesn't meet (by quite some way) the minimum requirements for any of the current WCG projects.
Last I heard, the people attempting the same trick on the 360 were finding life very difficult indeed. |
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Former Member
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I'm curious though ... How many gamers will leave their xbox360 turned on for crunching, when they are not gaming?
I owm a xbox360, however (without being selfish) I would not leave turned on after gaming. For one: the machine already make incredible noise when just turned on. During gameplay I usually don't notice, because the gamesounds. When reading a book, it is absolutely horrible. During gameplay, I probably won't want to crunch. I will need all processing power and memory for excellent graphics. That basically the reason why I bought the thing. |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There is another BOINC project called PS3grid. Guess what it runs on?
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There is another BOINC project called PS3grid. Guess what it runs on? Ehh ... an xbox360  no, that can't be it ...Read a little about it. Very interesting! One has to install Linux on the PS3, which give a load of advantages on top of being able to run boincs ps3grid  |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Any chance of getting an Xbox 360 install program made up? That would not be very kind from WCG to help gamers to melt down their XBox...  See below XBox 360 failures explained and Microsoft now receiving 2,500 broken 360s per day in UK alone? |
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Sekerob
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The best way to run WCG is without the graphics module.... that's what we've been advising all the time to get optimum performance.
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