1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : got 0 new tasks (Message 22427)
Posted 23 Jul 2010 by Dotsch
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LHC has not permantently work, only if the scientists are require a new run, work will be issued. So it's no error and OK.

Also the actual Sixtrack application is only avaialable for Windows in the moment. But I have readen in the forums, that it's planed to releas a Linux application.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Dotsch/UX 1.2 released (Message 22110)
Posted 24 Mar 2010 by Dotsch
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At the last weekend I have released Dotsch/UX 1.2.

Dotsch/UX is a Linux distribution for BOINC which easily installs and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and from diskless clients and also has some interfaces to setup the diskless server and the clients automatically.

For more informations have a look at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX

New features in 1.2 :
• Build in NVIDIA CUDA support, a additional tool to enable and check the NVIDIA CUDA support.
• Persistent Live CD mode for testing the distribution as Live CD and store the data on a USB stick/disk
• Automated and semiautomatic backup of the BOINC client data and some other OS data
• Included Ganglia for performance monitoring of the Dotsch/UX Grids
• Pre Installed BOINC client 6.10.17
• Removed a lot of unneeded packages in the x86 and x64 distribution
• A lot of bug fixes and enhancements

Special thanks to all the peoples which supported and helped to make the new distribution possible !
3) Questions and Answers : Wish list : A Macintosh OSX Client (Message 21716)
Posted 5 Dec 2009 by Dotsch
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I, too, have an Mac (quad i7) that wants to participate. It can be done.

Please scroll a little bit a above. There is a solution with crossover to crunch on Intel Macs...
4) Questions and Answers : Wish list : A Macintosh OSX Client (Message 21313)
Posted 21 Mar 2009 by Dotsch
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I guess that there would been released a MacOS application in the near time.

As I have written in the previos postings in this thread : The problem is, that diffrent compilers generate different results. But, if the project need 100% identical results from a WU it could be really problematic. That is the problem at LHC and some other Fortran based BOINC projects. The compiler which has LHC used is only available for Windows and Linux...

The only way to crunch is to using CrossOver - see my in previos posting in this thread.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Dotsch/UX - A USB/Diskless/Harddisk BOINC Linux Distribution (Message 21287)
Posted 4 Mar 2009 by Dotsch
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Today I have released Dotsch/UX 1.1. Mayor changes are the availability of a 32 bit (i386) and 64 bit (x64) distribution, mixed i386 and x64 diskless client on one single diskless server, build in BOINC client 6.4.5 and bug fixes
 for the USB, hard disk, diskless server and diskless client Installation tools.

The distribution is available at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Source code? porting, run as annonnymous? (Message 21213)
Posted 21 Feb 2009 by Dotsch
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My RS6000 will just have to stick with SETI@HOME.

SIMAP and Superlink@technion has also Applications for Linux on the Power/PowerPC architecture. AIX will be supported by SIMAP and SETI@home.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Dotsch/UX - A USB/Diskless/Harddisk BOINC Linux Distribution (Message 20994)
Posted 17 Jan 2009 by Dotsch
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This looks cool. I would d be interested to know if there is any performance increase when SuperSpeed USB 3.0 comes out at the latter end of the year.

Check this out:
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 in action at Engadget

Rob

With USB 3.0 the system would faster boot from the USB stick. But the crunching would not have any big benefits from USB3, because the most BOINC projects only writing a few data to the USB stick every several minutes.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Dotsch/UX - A USB/Diskless/Harddisk BOINC Linux Distribution (Message 20981)
Posted 15 Jan 2009 by Dotsch
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Today I have released Dotsch/UX 1.0. - Dotsch/UX is a Linux distribution for BOINC which easily installs and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and from diskless clients and also has some interfaces to setup the diskless server and the clients automatically.

For more informations have a look at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX
9) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Way to end projects gracefully? (Message 20940)
Posted 10 Jan 2009 by Dotsch
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The project is still alive. Work would only issued, if the scienstist need computations.
Have a look at this thead : http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=2261
10) Message boards : Number crunching : WLCG Worldwide LHC Computing Grid gets flipped on (Message 20640)
Posted 9 Oct 2008 by Dotsch
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Is BOINC out of service?. I cannot connect neither to it nor to SETI@home.
Tullio

In the SETI forums was a thread about routing problems. Looks like there was an issue with the http connect. For me the SETI and BOINC site works in the moment.
11) Questions and Answers : Wish list : A Macintosh OSX Client (Message 20607)
Posted 3 Oct 2008 by Dotsch
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In the moment the only way to crunch LHC at MacOS (Intel) is to use CrossOver, Parallels or VMWare as described earlier in this thread.
12) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC @ Home on Playstation 3 (Message 20562)
Posted 28 Sep 2008 by Dotsch
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PS3 porting is quite not easy...
It was discussed some time ago in this thread
13) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC@Home on Mac ? (Message 20326)
Posted 13 Sep 2008 by Dotsch
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The LHC sixtrack applicaiton was compiled with a special fortran compiler which is only available for Linux and Windows. If other compilers would be used, it could produce differnt results.

The only was to crunch LHC on the Intel Mac is via CrossOver or Parallels. Parallels has much more overhead like with CrossOver...
A howto for seting up CrossOver for LHC is available on my hoemepage : http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/MacOS_Crossover_howto.html
14) Message boards : Number crunching : platform 'powerpc-pc-linux-gnu' application for my PS3 ? (Message 20269)
Posted 12 Sep 2008 by Dotsch
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First, there is no PPC science-application for LHC and there probably will never be one (see other threads).
Does LHC@home need good floating point performace ?
Same as on the other projects, too. The application must complete rewritten to get the full performance of the PS3 SPEs. Rewriting the source is a lot of work...
Also other problem, LHC uses a special Fortran compiler which is only available at Windows and Linux. Other compilers produce different resutls, but LHC needs identical results.
Rewriting the source isn\\\\\\\'t what i am asking for !

And as I have installed Fedora 9 on my PS3, it should be possible to install a Cross-compiler on your computer for your Fortran to produce PPC ( without SPE ! ) code for all PPC Linux platforms.

MfG, MEX

No. It it not posible to install a cross compiler. There is no crosscompiler for the compiler which CERN has used available for PPC or the PS3. The compiler which has CERN used is only available for Windows and Linux on x86.
Also the other problem is that there could be some hughe differences in the results by using a other hardware platform.
Without coderewriting the PS3 performs comparable as a G4/G5 Mac.

15) Message boards : Number crunching : platform 'powerpc-pc-linux-gnu' application for my PS3 ? (Message 20268)
Posted 12 Sep 2008 by Dotsch
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First, there is no PPC science-application for LHC and there probably will never be one (see other threads).
Does LHC@home need good floating point performace ?
Same as on the other projects, too. The application must complete rewritten to get the full performance of the PS3 SPEs. Rewriting the source is a lot of work...
Also other problem, LHC uses a special Fortran compiler which is only available at Windows and Linux. Other compilers produce different resutls, but LHC needs identical results.
Rewriting the source isn\\\'t what i am asking for !

And as I have installed Fedora 9 on my PS3, it should be possible to install a Cross-compiler on your computer for your Fortran to produce PPC ( without SPE ! ) code for all PPC Linux platforms.

MfG, MEX

No. It it not posible to install a cross compiler. There is no crosscompiler for the compiler which CERN has used available for PPC or the PS3. The compiler which has CERN used is only available for Windows and Linux on x86.
Without coderewriting the PS3 performs comparable as a G4/G5 Mac.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Actual LHC data to crunch? (Message 20212)
Posted 11 Sep 2008 by Dotsch
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Hi there,
We still have some more tuning to do on the LHC and your help for that is appreciated.

We also have some other particle physics projects in the pipeline.

Alex

Great !!!!!!!!

Any timeline for the new project ?
Do you have some more details about the new project ?
17) Message boards : Cafe LHC : LHC@home T-shirt (Message 20210)
Posted 11 Sep 2008 by Dotsch
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I am also interested in some T-shirt\'s.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : platform 'powerpc-pc-linux-gnu' application for my PS3 ? (Message 20056)
Posted 9 Sep 2008 by Dotsch
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First, there is no PPC science-application for LHC and there probably will never be one (see other threads).
Why ?

Does LHC@home need good floating point performace ?

MfG, MEX

Same as on the other projects, too. The application must complete rewritten to get the full performance of the PS3 SPEs. Rewriting the source is a lot of work...
Also other problem, LHC uses a special Fortran compiler which is only available at Windows and Linux. Other compilers produce different resutls, but LHC needs identical results.
19) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Mac OS X is UNIX, BOINC works, but LHC does not (Message 19755)
Posted 1 Jul 2008 by Dotsch
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Thanks, I'll try that. (But isn't Unix Unix? Why does Unix code have to be redone for another Unix?)

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
20) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Mac OS X is UNIX, BOINC works, but LHC does not (Message 19753)
Posted 30 Jun 2008 by Dotsch
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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.


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