Good Day,
I have noticed Linux based Machines are doing much better then Windows based machines.Does it make sense to switch some of my Windows Boxes to Linux and run Boinc on that?

Thank you

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If you are referring to a couple of the top computers, they are running a pre-alpha version for application that has been highly optimized. Once the good people who update the apps incorporate some of those changes into a more general release you will likely see very similar performance for those apps regardless of the OS.

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Comparing by OS alone is dicey at the moment, in part because of ongoing development work (as mentioned in previous post), and in part because the driver technologies are in a state of flux (which is one of the main things optimisations address, at least in Cuda builds).

Best bet at the moment is try get a handle on where things are headed, which is pretty much to gradually bring the platforms into line, and more or less the comparison comes down to hardware, applications, and how you run them instead (not a simple comparison)

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Jason, a few years back, when I was all hyped up about getting my little farm together, a fellow by the name of Dotsch had spent time programming a few ways to run Linux, including one that really caught my eye, as a headless/diskless setup, booting off of a main drive off the network if I remember correctly.

I thought that was quite cool, so this week when I started things rolling a little around here, I looked him up, and it appears that he hasn't been around here for about 3 or so years. His stuff is still up, and his site even has a contact email on it on one of the pages, but I never heard back from him after I sent him a Hi, howya doin' message.

Does anyone know what may have happened to him, since his stuff is still up and available (thought doubtful it would still work properly, as I believe the last work he did was update it to work with version 7)? I hope he is ok, I had communicated with him a few times, he was a very nice person, quite responsive and always looking for input to make things better.

I'd love to have the ability to use what he started, but as the new version is out, and I have absolutely 0 ability to code, it doesn't look very promising. Anyone know anything?

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Jason, a few years back, when I was all hyped up about getting my little farm together, a fellow by the name of Dotsch had spent time programming a few ways to run Linux, including one that really caught my eye, as a headless/diskless setup, booting off of a main drive off the network if I remember correctly.

I thought that was quite cool, so this week when I started things rolling a little around here, I looked him up, and it appears that he hasn't been around here for about 3 or so years. His stuff is still up, and his site even has a contact email on it on one of the pages, but I never heard back from him after I sent him a Hi, howya doin' message.

Does anyone know what may have happened to him, since his stuff is still up and available (thought doubtful it would still work properly, as I believe the last work he did was update it to work with version 7)? I hope he is ok, I had communicated with him a few times, he was a very nice person, quite responsive and always looking for input to make things better.

I'd love to have the ability to use what he started, but as the new version is out, and I have absolutely 0 ability to code, it doesn't look very promising. Anyone know anything?

There are SETI@home v8 applications. So it should just be a matter of swapping out the old apps with the new ones.

Dotsch might have also been the one that made a version of WinPE to boot off an image and run BOINC from a network folder. Where each host would look for a folder that matched its MAC address. I played around with that, but found it easier to use USB flash drives instead.

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