Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:30:13 -0600 From: Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> To: Shaun Branden <shaun@pcuse.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boinc port? Message-ID: <20040625133013.GA6729@rogue> In-Reply-To: <20040625123659.GA25729@pcuse.com> References: <20040625012107.5F09543D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20040625123659.GA25729@pcuse.com>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:06:59PM +0930, Shaun Branden wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:21:03PM -0600, Robin Schoonover wrote: > > Given the recent attention boinc and seti_boinc have gotten (getting an > > article on slashdot does that), it wouldn't surprise me if someone was > > already working on a port, which is why I'm querying the list. > > (haven't seen any messages yet about it) > > > > I worked on porting them, and I've gotten it both seti@home for boinc > > -and- boinc themselves to compile. I have not yet tested to see how well > > they run. I also have the ports partially created. > > > If you are already working on it, let me know, so we can figure out who > > should continue on with the work. > > A port sounds like a great idea. I have compiled boinc and seti_boinc > (include stdlib.h and assert.h into the .cpp files that spit and use > gmake). I didn't even need to put stdlib.h in anywhere (I cringe though, since something may have changed in -current that'd require this since 5.2.1) I did see that assert.h was needed though (in diagonistics.h, which defines BOINCASSERT). > It is running on my computer, but it is hard to actually tell > how well as the work unit servers are currently empty. Weird. I tested boinc out on a winxp machine at work, it got a bunch of work units. I also tried to use the linux binary of boinc on my FreeBSD box and it worked up to a point. After a while seti_boinc seemed to hang and stop saving data (it had an estimated time to completion of 10 minutes, but had not updated the state file in over an hour. I was able to reproduce this with other work units and times). (The linux binaries not working properly was the reason I first looked into porting this natively). Then again, I find it plausible that they might not have had any work units when you first started running it, given the recent attention it has been getting. -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # "But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable # computers?"
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