Since the forum here does not lend itself to formatted text very well, here's a link to detailed instructions on how to get your very own optimized client for Linux compiled.

Instructions

If you should decide to compile your own client based on these instructions or have questions, feel free to post here.

Any changes and updates will be announced here.
This page includes download links to Seti@Home enhanced 5.15 sources that are known to compile.

I will outline all code changes done in a later post in this thread. Right now I need a break :o)

Regards and good luck,
Simon

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This is very cool. We should all pitch in and get you a nice shrubbery.

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Since the forum here does not lend itself to formatted text very well, here's a link to detailed instructions on how to get your very own optimized client for Linux compiled.

Instructions

If you should decide to compile your own client based on these instructions or have questions, feel free to post here.

Any changes and updates will be announced here.
This page includes download links to Seti@Home enhanced 5.15 sources that are known to compile.

I will outline all code changes done in a later post in this thread. Right now I need a break :o)

Regards and good luck,
Simon

Great work Simon!
Going to be on vacation starting Friday for a couple of weeks, w/ some time to indulge myself.
I think I'll give it a whack and see how it goes.

BTW, my offer to Beta-test your Windows build still stands if you can use a tester later.
You can e-mail me here: ppcg47455@hotmail.com
Regards.

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Since the forum here does not lend itself to formatted text very well, here's a link to detailed instructions on how to get your very own optimized client for Linux compiled.

Instructions

If you should decide to compile your own client based on these instructions or have questions, feel free to post here.

Any changes and updates will be announced here.
This page includes download links to Seti@Home enhanced 5.15 sources that are known to compile.

I will outline all code changes done in a later post in this thread. Right now I need a break :o)

Regards and good luck,
Simon

Dude, that is an awesome writeup!

I'm going to try it as soon as I get a chance!

Awesome job!!

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This is very cool. We should all pitch in and get you a nice shrubbery.

Then I'll just have to ask for.....another shrubbery! I have a tree to fell, as well...:o)

Thanks for the comments people, I've already changed and updated a few minor things concerning the Intel lib installation.
Right now I'm playing with the Windows version as well as figuring out a few things concerning SSE and MMX. Package and scripts will be updated also.

I'll be filling that URL with more than just a static HTML page, probably either install a portal or a front page that links to Windows/Linux/whatever sub-pages.

Oh yeah, should you have looked at www.zadra.org directly, that ain't me, but my Dad...nice beard, eh.

Regards,
Simon

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I'll be filling that URL with more than just a static HTML page, probably either install a portal or a front page that links to Windows/Linux/whatever sub-pages.

Can I suggest the Xayara CMS system. If you are looking to have something you can drop additions and other things into with little time involved. Well at least as little as possible once you get used to the system. You can look into it here. It has many modules. You will need access to a database server and have PHP 4.4 (double check this, may be lower) or higher installed on the Web Server. But with the loadable modules, you could have a forum board, news section and other interesting things installed. Could grow into a small community in itself.

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Thanks, but no thanks -

I actively develop a portal system that's on Sourceforge already.
http://www.lunabyte.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lunabyte

Enough of that now :o)
I've found some things in the build scripts that could be improved, so that's what I'll be doing later on.

There will be a new downloadable package (same name) so the link will still work.

Regards,
Simon.

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Way cool! Thanks!

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Whoa :o)

284 hits on the Linux How-To - M-O-O-N, that spells "success" ;o)
18 downloads of the tarball so far, so I can only guess there are some people out there trying things for themselves.

Please post links to your test hosts if you manage to get your own client to work!

Regards,
Simon.

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Real nice job on the writeup Simon :)

^^ ha - just you wait till it takes off. Last year, at it's peak, I was getting roughly 80,000 hits from about 10,000 visits per month on my seti pages. I still got 22,000 hits from 2000 visits last month (including 250 downloads of the depreciated seti clients!) despite my site now being totally out of date. Hope you got plenty of bandwidth ;)

If it's OK with you, I'd like to link your writeup from my site :)

Regards,

Ned

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Hi Ned,

Thanks! You sure are welcome to do that.

Be advised I'll be filling it with a portal, most probably, but the link to writeups will be right smack dab in the middle.

Today I got fed up with sharing my main work system with several other OSes on VMWare, so I bought a Pentium-D 805 (which is 64-Bit SSE3 capable). The whole system cost 384€ (about 450 USD) with 1 GB Corsair DDR2-667, so that was quite okay. Can only recommend it for the budget cruncher.

So I'll extend the writeup and the scripts for 64-bit and SSE3.

That puter now has 4 operating systems - Windows XP 32/64, Debian Sarge 32/64. Bit of work, but worth it. Now I can do real comparable testing on the same hardware.

Regards,
Simon.

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@KWSN- Chicken of Angnor

Can't remember if it was the 805 or the 825 but there was an internet article somewhere about some of them ocing to ridiculus speeds with stock cooling or improved(4Ghz+ with water cooling) because of strange multiplier value or something. depends if your into that stuff and want the risk :)

Anyway sorry for off topic.

[EDIT]
Found one the articles. Theres others
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/

Yup,

I'm aware of that :o) However, I'll be needing a better board for that. This one doesn't allow any VCore adjustments, sadly. It does however take an AGP and a PCIe card at the same time as well as either DDR or DDR2, which makes it pretty okay in my book (board cost around 50 bucks).

Any sort of OC-friendly board was around 100-150 bucks for the board alone, which was over my budget there. It goes to about 3 GHz without VCore adjustment for me, not real far, so I've kept it at default for now.

I'll be getting myself a Conroe when they come out (and an OC-ready platform), and then we're gonna see ;o) No sense in spending too much money now.

Regards,
Simon.

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Seems I have problems installing the RPM's from Intel and their error log doesn't help a bit. I have ICC/IPP installed successfully on an older machine when I was trying to help harold and crunch3r optimize but it's a BIG step down in speed. I'd much rather build on a 2000+ athlon than a 400MHz P3. Did you use alien, rpm, or rpm2cpio?

I put that in the How-To, actually :o)

I used alien. It's really really nice for RPMs - also, you can uninstall packages again cleanly that way, and with your distro's package manager, too.
Plus, the name is just too fitting to be ignored...

So basically, I had that error because my RPM binary was 4.0, and only 4.1+ supports installation into non-default directories.

In the How-To, under the first requirements section (base build environment), I put an apt-get command that had alien and associated libs in it for exactly that purpose. In a later paragraph on installing the libs, I showed how to use alien to make a Debian package and install it.

Hope that helps :o)

Regards,
Simon.

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I'm using gentoo with RPM 4.2 so the .deb won't work and I don't have the default directory problem (I'm leaving it default anyway).

I can unpack with both rpm and alien no problem it appears.

Basically the install script doesn't seem to be able to find the files that were just unpacked so it craps out.

Hm,

haven't had that problem yet (but then, I haven't tried gentoo).

The library packages only come in .rpm.
I didn't use the install script that came with the rpms (in the same dir) but alien and the rpm directly (but then I guess that's what you're doing, just for clarification).

For me, there were (per lib package) two rpms to install. I always installed the *base* package first, not sure whether that matters. Also, I always put it all in /opt/intel, which works well on Debian and Fedora Core (you said you did too).

Really not much of an idea, but - you can put this on Intel's support board (when you click on a download link, they always offer you free support - take 'em up on it!), maybe they have a suggestion. They're pretty quick to answer usually.

Regards,
Simon.

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When I enter "make lib32" I get this error

make build_obj IE=i D=_results/lib32_intel
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/intel/mkl/8.0.2/examples/fftw2mkl'
mkdir -p _results/lib32_intel
icc -w -D_LINUX -I../../include -c wrappers/fftw_cleanup.c -o _results/lib32_intel/fftw_cleanup.o
make[1]: icc: Command not found
make[1]: *** [fftw_cleanup.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/intel/mkl/8.0.2/examples/fftw2mkl'
make: *** [lib32] Error 2


I've got everything installed that is required. Using Ubuntu 5.1

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help

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Yup,

check out the content of this script -

/opt/intel/cc/9.0/bin/iccvars.sh

From your error message

make[1]: icc: Command not found

it looks like you didn't logout and back in since installing (since iccvars.sh should run in your profile if the installer did its thing right).

Try doing that, and then try this:

root@compilatrix:~# set | grep PATH

One of the resulting lines should now have this at the front:

PATH=/opt/intel/cc/9.0/bin

Hope that helps!

I'll put that you should relogin into the instructions. Totally forgot that since my environment was already setup before. Thanks for noticing :o)

Regards,
Simon.

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Bah, now I remember what I did. Gentoo has a masked ebuild for ICC 9.0.030 (9.0.021 when I did it before). I need to install it that way.

As far as mkl and ipp, I found my old post on the gentoo forums.
what also worked instead of rpm is the following:

# alien -t -v filename.rpm
# tar -xzvf filename.tgz -C /

This may be useful for your howto because the -d flag you list is only good for debian. -t makes tarballs which should be good for everybody.

I may have to manually link the libraries because all that does is unzip the files but at least I know they are there.