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Are "older" CPUs unsupported by the BOINC software?
I ask because my, admittedly long in the tooth, Pentium MMX system which happily munched away on the old seti@home client has problems running the CPU benchmarks, either running the precompiled linux version (for i686 according to the filename) or by compiling it from source.
I get the following output:
./boinc_3.20_i586-pc-linux-gnu -run_cpu_benchmarks
2004-07-17 14:38:53 [---] Starting BOINC client version 3.20 for i586-pc-linux-gnu
2004-07-17 14:38:53 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-07-17 14:38:53 [SETI@home] Host ID is [snip]
2004-07-17 14:38:53 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2004-07-17 14:38:53 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2004-07-17 14:38:53 [---] Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
2004-07-17 14:39:55 [---] Benchmark results:
2004-07-17 14:39:55 [---] Number of CPUs: 0
2004-07-17 14:39:55 [---] nan double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2004-07-17 14:39:55 [---] nan integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2004-07-17 14:39:55 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks
2004-07-17 14:39:56 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
System is a Pentium MMX approx 200Mhz, running debian linux, kernel 2.2.20-compact.
Incidentally and probably not relevant, the seti project source won't even compile on this machine, although I've not investigated further to narrow down the cause.
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