Run standalone application without graphics on windows.
Anonymous
9 Apr 2007 10:05:42 UTC
Topic 13542
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Nope, there isn't.
The App starts up multi-threaded, the graphics thread figures out that it is running standalone as it can't communicate with the Core Client and popps up the graphics window. That's actually the behavior of the BOINC API, we didn't even code this specifically for Einstein@Home. The only way to disable this would be to write a fake Core Client the App can communicate with.
And btw. I really wonder why you would want to run the App standalone.
Using some Windows automation tools (like PowerShell) it should be possible to minimize the graphics window, which should help somewhat.
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Run standalone application without graphics on windows.
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If you just want to benchmark the hardware and its suitability for Einstein@Home, I'd rather recommend to try Linux. The analysis code is the same, you can easily disable the graphics (just move away the .so file) and you (usually) don't have as many other things (services) running that may compromise the results as you have on Windows. A live CD of almost every distribution (Ubuntu, Knoppix, whatever) should do.
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RE: Running Linux from a
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Linux starts up slower, and most programs must be read from the CD and access their configuration files etc. there. But once a progarm is in memory it runs equally fast, no matter whether it got there from CD, HDD or network.
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RE: I have 26 MB of
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Yep. (actually there are more intelligent ways to do this by now than a fixed sized RAM-disk)
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