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Mac OS X is UNIX, BOINC works, but LHC does not
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Send message Joined: 1 Jun 06 Posts: 45 Credit: 17,924 RAC: 0 |
I'm running Mac OS X 10.4 (tiger), and have heard that OS X is basically the same as UNIX. My BOINC client, however, has recieved no work, even though it should. Any ideas? There is no MacOS application on LHC@Home, only Linux and Windows. Michael |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 05 Posts: 60 Credit: 76,331 RAC: 99 |
MacOS is a Unix, too. But, that the application would ran on MacOS it must compiled for each Unix. LHC has used a very special compiler, which is only avialblable for Windows and Linux. A other soultion to crunch LHC with a Intel Mac, is to use CrossOver. I have written a howto about this : http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/BOINC%20howtos.html CrossOver emulates some things (API calls) from Windows. So it is posible to let some Windows science applications running on the Mac side by side the native MacOS BOINC client. |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 05 Posts: 60 Credit: 76,331 RAC: 99 |
Over the very long history of Unix it was used by a lot of vendors on a lot of different hardware. So there are now a lot of different Unixes out there which are not binary compatible which each other... Some very interesting articles : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Unix_history-simple.svg http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#14 |
Send message Joined: 12 Jan 07 Posts: 5 Credit: 36,188 RAC: 0 |
I have a NEW MAC OS X Laptop and am not getting any work units, I had this problem on a PC when I was using one and LHC wasn\'t putting out any work. Question: is LHC coasting on their work load because of major problems OR are MAC\'s not being supported? I had run across a site that didn\'t support the MAC and quit the site, BUT, because of interest in their project I logged on again and found they were now able to use MAC support! IF they can get it together, (they are not as big as LHC), what gives??? Blowing up the planet is NOT a desire of mine and IF you fail in a test, that could result..., so let me help OK? I don\'t care if you ONLY give me housekeeping stuff to work, but give us something!!! |
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