old: Mac OSX test Application for Einstein@Home

Bernd Machenschalk
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14 Aug 2005 21:13:34 UTC
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    We have a new version of the Einstein@Home application ready for testing on Macintosh OSX. Please see [url=http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/app_test.php]
    http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/app_test.php for details of how to install and test this on your Mac OSX computer.

    This version includes a working screensaver and should interact nicely with the new BOINC manager tool.

    Please use this thread to report success or problems with this application.

    Bruce Allen

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    old: Mac OSX test Application for Einstein@Home

    19 Jun 2005 21:57:18 UTC
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      Always a glutton for beta punishment. I'll have it up and running on both Macs today.


      Nice to see you here!

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      UPDATE: Dummy me, the first two units errored out because I forgot to chmod.


      We should put them in a tar so the user doesn't need to do this manually

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      Results 5596287 and 5596289 both gave the error message>process exited with code 2 (0x2).


      Already saw these...

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      Third unit (after chmod) is running fine. BOINC Advanced GUI and even the graphics work.


      Good eh? Was a hard piece of work...

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      RE: RE: RE: Third unit

      20 Jun 2005 0:48:39 UTC
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        Third unit (after chmod) is running fine. BOINC Advanced GUI and even the graphics work.

        Good eh? Was a hard piece of work...

        BM

        So far it is a great piece of work.

        I've got two units on two different computers working fine. Won't see final results for a bit though. iMac G5 takes about 11 hours, and the old iBook 600 takes about 30 hours. Their both sharing time with Predictor but have been doing the hourly switch off without problems. I've changed the resource for those machines to give Einstein a better work out. 200/100 with Einstein getting the larger share. Ought to start seeing results within 24 hours.

        Fairly soon we ought to have an Altivec-enabled version available for testing. That will be quite a lot faster.

        Bruce

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        RE: I've got two units on

        20 Jun 2005 12:50:03 UTC
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          I've got two units on two different computers working fine. Won't see final results for a bit though. iMac G5 takes about 11 hours, and the old iBook 600 takes about 30 hours.

          I just saw your first dropping in, looks ok.

          Your iBook won't gain much of the AltiVec App, but it's good to test the AltiVec detection I put in...

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          Thanks to Bernd we now have

          20 Jun 2005 16:58:42 UTC
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            Thanks to Bernd we now have new applications for both Mac and Windows computers.
            Bernd has also impoved the instructions for how to install the beta test applications.

            The Einstein@Home Beta Test page for details.

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            Maybe the warning on top of

            20 Jun 2005 22:29:40 UTC
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              Maybe the warning on top of the beta test page is not prominent enogh there - any better idea?

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              RE: Not finding

              21 Jun 2005 3:05:43 UTC
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                Not finding project.
                Not copying messages to clipboard.
                What now?

                --Bob Mark


                Bob,

                (1) Do you have OSX 10.3.9 or 10.4?
                (2) Are you using version 4.43 of the BOINC manager?
                (3) Did you have a working installation BEFORE putting the
                app_info.xml and einstein_... files into place?

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                RE: /Library/Application

                21 Jun 2005 3:08:20 UTC
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                  /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ directory

                  that path does not exist...are we supposed to create the directory folder inside /einstein.phys.uwm.edu/....or what.

                  Not very good instructions. I hope they program better then they give instructs!

                  Need a little help, please!

                  Thanks in advance!
                  MacStef

                  PS. Why are window machines getting more credits and run faster then the Macs. I have a G4 DP 1GHz w/ 1.5 GB Ram, I am running only boinc and it is slower then windows machines with slower processors.
                  What gives??!!!

                  Instructions say to install version 4.43 of the BOINC manager. If you do this,
                  and attach to the project, it creates the directory described above.

                  Bruce

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                  RE: Switched over to the

                  21 Jun 2005 10:30:08 UTC
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                    Switched over to the Altivec enabled app. Looks to be a lot faster as claimed. Almost twice as fast.

                    Well, that's how it should be. Would be courious to know what your iBook makes of it.

                    There should be a line "Detected CPU type" in the stderr of the Results, 1 means AltiVec, 0 means generic.

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                    RE: Under the old setup,

                    21 Jun 2005 13:47:19 UTC
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                      Under the old setup, program ran all the time, using all idle resources (both CPUs at 100%), Now it pauses whenever I touch the computer. It takes a long time to resume.

                      What was your "old setup" (i.e. which client version)? I remember that earlier clients didn't properly honor your "Do work while computer is in use" preference setting, the newer Clients should do this. Take a look at the general preferences in "your account", you may need to adjust this item to get the old behavior.

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                      Bernd Machenschalk
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                      AltiVec is an SIMD unit that

                      22 Jun 2005 7:52:06 UTC
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                        AltiVec is an SIMD unit that is built into G4 and G5 CPUs. The 0.02 App makes use of it, it doesn't give anything on a G3, though.

                        BTW: did anyone notice an increase of crunching time on a G3 between the official 4.78 and the 0.01 / 0.02 beta test Apps?

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