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ZABA77
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Is their a BOINC version that would allow me to crunch on a Sun Ultra? Thanks.
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Sadly, while BOINC is available for many platforms and architectures, the WCG science applications that BOINC runs are only available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Sorry. It is possible that AIX or Solaris support will be added at a future date, but is by no means guaranteed. Meanwhile, there are other BOINC projects that will support your computers. |
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ZABA77
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Thanks for the reply. I can understand that those would be the leading OSes.
I would certainly look forward to a Solaris/SPARC version. There's a lot of Un*x boxes sitting around that could be crunching for the cure. Thanks again. |
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Dotsch
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Thanks for the reply. I can understand that those would be the leading OSes. I would certainly look forward to a Solaris/SPARC version. There's a lot of Un*x boxes sitting around that could be crunching for the cure. BOINC SIMAP (boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap) is also a biomedical project (Searching for similarities of proteins and protein domains) which has binaries for the most popular Unixes. There is also a list of the different projects and there supported OSes at the boinc wiki : http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=Choosing_a_BOINC_Powered_Project |
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of course if these Solaris boxes are just sitting around, you might look into installing Ubuntu on them so you could run the Linux BOINC. ??
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Dotsch
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of course if these Solaris boxes are just sitting around, you might look into installing Ubuntu on them so you could run the Linux BOINC. ?? WCG has only Linux x86 binaries. SPARC and x86 are complete different architectures. So it is not posible to let x86 Linux binaries runing on the SPARC platform. If you use a emulation to emulate a x86 architecture on a SPARC, you will lose a lot of performance. |
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so the Ubuntu here : http://www.ubuntu.com/sun
will not support wcg BOINC ? or is this for newer sun machines only ? or is it the Ubuntu thats different ? just wondering. |
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Dotsch
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so the Ubuntu here : http://www.ubuntu.com/sun will not support wcg BOINC ? or is this for newer sun machines only ? or is it the Ubuntu thats different ? just wondering. It is a Linux which was made for the SPARC architecture. Intel (x86) and SPARC are complete different architectures. The Linux x86 binaries will not run on a SPARC Linux, and vice versa. If you would let BOINC and WCG run on a SPARC Linux, you must compile the applications from scratch, to make a code which your CPU architecture understand. |
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thank you for your response Dotsch.
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ZABA77
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Thanks for the BOINC Wiki article. That is interesting.
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