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Message 486949 - Posted: 21 Dec 2006, 17:24:15 UTC

Cool!

Are you registered at lunatics.at yet? If so, tell me your username, and I'll give you full access to the development area - it's a bit easier to keep track of development all in one place :o)

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Message 488190 - Posted: 23 Dec 2006, 15:06:25 UTC - in response to Message 486949.  

Cool!

Are you registered at lunatics.at yet? If so, tell me your username, and I'll give you full access to the development area - it's a bit easier to keep track of development all in one place :o)

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Message 488783 - Posted: 24 Dec 2006, 0:59:21 UTC

Hi Michael,

you're added and should now see some extra boards and download categories.

I'll put together a tarball with the current sources for you and post about it in the Pre-Release Linux board.

Thanks for participating!

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Message 489476 - Posted: 24 Dec 2006, 18:09:33 UTC - in response to Message 488783.  

Hi Michael,

you're added and should now see some extra boards and download categories.

I'll put together a tarball with the current sources for you and post about it in the Pre-Release Linux board.

Thanks for participating!

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Your most welcome. I will take a look at it after Christmas...probably some time middle week. This cool?

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Message 489485 - Posted: 24 Dec 2006, 18:30:00 UTC

That sounds great :o)

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Message 493837 - Posted: 30 Dec 2006, 16:15:28 UTC - in response to Message 489485.  

That sounds great :o)

Happy holidays,
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To be honest, I have barely looked at it so far...holidays has me strapped down with relatives visiting and parties. And I got a house full again this weekend.

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Message 493883 - Posted: 30 Dec 2006, 16:54:53 UTC

Slacker ;o)

Seriously though, nobody's setting deadlines, so please enjoy the holidays and, always, family comes first!

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Message 512643 - Posted: 3 Feb 2007, 15:16:35 UTC

Hi,
I 've been using boincmgr in order to compute SETI@HOME workunits on an AMD-64. However, boincmgr seems to be optimized for Intel processors (since I use same manager on an Intel processor on another pc, and the RAC there is higher than on AMD64 - which should not be the case). KWSN, I read your link on optimization, however, these are instructions for Intel-based processors. Is anyone aware of womething similar for AMD64 processors?
Wouldn't a simple parameter like -march=k8 at compilation produce correct results?

Thank you in advance for any help,
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Message 512714 - Posted: 3 Feb 2007, 18:59:02 UTC - in response to Message 512643.  

Hi,
I 've been using boincmgr in order to compute SETI@HOME workunits on an AMD-64. However, boincmgr seems to be optimized for Intel processors (since I use same manager on an Intel processor on another pc, and the RAC there is higher than on AMD64 - which should not be the case). KWSN, I read your link on optimization, however, these are instructions for Intel-based processors. Is anyone aware of womething similar for AMD64 processors?
Wouldn't a simple parameter like -march=k8 at compilation produce correct results?

Thank you in advance for any help,
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Hi Dimis,

First, please note that BOINCMGR does not actually do any computing. It's simply a front end to control all the projects you compute for. BOINC will download a science application that actually does the data crunching, but that's it.

Second, all of Simon's (Chicken's) optimizations have a "generic" version, which can be used on AMD chips. I'm using a generic SSE3 on an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ right now. Just be careful you don't download the "Intel" specific optimizations, which have Intel in the description name of the app.
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Message 556728 - Posted: 30 Apr 2007, 12:24:18 UTC - in response to Message 342979.  

Does anyone have instructions on how to compile seti_boinc for PowerPC Linux (say, YDL) with altivec support? I seem to run into trouble because the altivec source appears to expect Mac OS X.

Thanks very much.
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