[pkg-boinc-devel] Re: BOINC, Einstein@Home, and i386

[Kaare Olsen]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:03:30 +0100
"Frank S. Thomas" <frank@thomas-alfeld.de> wrote:

> On Monday 21 March 2005 00:37, you wrote:
> 
> > When using your Debian version of the BOINC client, I get the
> > following error from Einstein@Home:
> >
> > "Message from server: platform 'i386-pc-linux-gnu' not found"
> 
> The problem is as far as I understand, that those projects don't
> provide  applications for the reported platform. If Einstein@Home
> would release their  source code (what they apparently won't do [1]),
> I could build a  boinc-client-einstein package, which would include
> the "app_info.xml" file  for this client. If you are interested in
> details, see [2].

Oh, I see.  I only converted from classic SETI@home yesterday and hadn't
entirely understood how BOINC works with different projects and
operating systems.

> > I have no idea whether Einstein@Home ought to support that CPU
> > flavour; if you think so, I'll let them know about the problem.
> 
> Currently it seems that they are not supporting i386 and I think they
> should  provide their einstein application for this platform,
> otherwise the majority  of users of the Debian BOINC package can't
> crunch E@h WUs, which is obviously  a bad thing.

Indeed.  As an alternative it might be possible to create a Debian
package that downloads the latest official release of BOINC from the web
site - have you considered that?

> Could you please provide me with a link to the forum or mailing list,
> if you  talk to the Einstein@home staff? I'm interested what they have
> to say about  this. Thanks.

Will do.  Also, see [1].
 
> > Instead I've downloaded the official version of BOINC (i686
> > flavour), which is supported.
> 
> Currently I'm also using the official BOINC client for i686. However,
> the  boinc-client package is still useful for me because of the init
> script  included in the yet unreleased 4.26-1 package, which can start
> any BOINC  client at startup. I'll upload them to my homepage as soon
> as I sent this  mail.

I'll grab that package since my current selfmade init script for BOINC
isn't exactly up to Debian standards. :-)

> BTW: May I post this conversation to the pkg-boinc-devel mailing
> list[3]? It  would be nice if this is publicly archived somewhere. 

I just subscribed to the list and have forwarded my initial mail to it,
and I'll send this reply directly to the list as well, so let's continue
there.

[1] http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=1449

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