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Bernd Machenschalk
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5 Nov 2007 16:25:51 UTC
Topic 13623
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    A FreeBSD x86 App is available from our Beta Test page.

    This has been built due to somewhat popular demand and as I had a FreeBSD 5.5 environment ready. I hadn't time to put special effort in optimization, it's just what I could do while waiting for other jobs to finish. I expect the Linux app in emulation will run faster than this native FreeBSD app.

    Give it a try. I'm curious how the latest BOINC library version works on FreeBSD.

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    Bernd Machenschalk
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    FreeBSD S5R3 App 4.18 available for Beta test

    7 Nov 2007 11:24:15 UTC
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      I guess you got lucky. With "no special effort" I meant that I just used the standard gcc-3.3 compiler that came with FreeBSD 5.5. It might be worth a look if some gcc-4 really makes faster code of our sources.

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      Bernd Machenschalk
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      Yes, the MD5sum on the page

      9 Nov 2007 13:36:27 UTC
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        Yes, the MD5sum on the page is probably wrong. I'll fix that ASAP.

        Edit: Fixed.

        Thanks for the report.

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        Bernd Machenschalk
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        RE: I lost one work-unit

        12 Nov 2007 15:26:59 UTC
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          I lost one work-unit but that was caused by some "interesting issues" of the kernel scheduler. See http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu//host/825677


          It looks like you lost the S5R2 task that was still in the pipeline. Honestly I didn't expect people to still have one of these, and the app_info.xml isn't prepared for this.

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          RE: So, Bernd, if you get a

          15 Feb 2008 10:39:15 UTC
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            So, Bernd, if you get a chance to optimize the BSD app, I'll be more than glad to help you test it. ;)


            Is anyone actually interested in running an Einstein@home FreeBSD App on a CPU not capable of SSE? Otherwise I'd like to go straight for the latest (and fastest) SSE code.

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