source code?
Anonymous
19 Feb 2005 22:52:54 UTC
Topic 12596
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There is no single source code tree (tarball or sth.). The E@H Apps are currently built from the code of four large CVS trees and a number of libs, plus some architecture-specific stuff, adding up to about 200MB or so of source code. If you really want to look through it, I can probably zip up such a build tree and send it to you. The main part of the science code is made up by LAL, the LSC Algorithm Library, available from http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/projects/lal.html
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source code?
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Actually I am a bit concerned about making the whole source available without even knowing who has it.
One thing is that this may attract cheaters.
Moreover people will build and "optimize" it for their machines. At some point we got significant differencs in the outcome because of very subtle changes we made not to the code but to the build process (compilation flags etc.). We already can see the effect of overclocked CPUs in the results we get back. The algorithm or at least its implementation apparently isn't robust enough to let a large number of people play around with it without risking to render the results and thus the project useless.
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Janus: If you want to know
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Janus:
If you want to know how to use BOINC or write an own BOINC application, go to Eric's Pirates site. He did a very good job writing a Boinc "hello world" and quite some Apps that are far easier to understand than ours is.
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