FreeBSD x86
The key features of this beta test App include:
Assembler-coded "hot loop", on SSE machines, being faster while still keeping enough precision
Tuned sin/cos calculations should give a small speedup on non-SSE-machines, too
allows to process work for S5R1 as well as for old S4 Workunits
Built on FreeBSD 5.5
Sorry - No graphics
Installation instructions:
If you are not running FreeBSD 5.x, make sure your kernel has COMPAT_FREEBSD5 enabled
(which is the default) and you have installed misc/compat5x (ports)
Stop any BOINC clients you have that may be running at this time.
Locate the BOINC directory. If you use the boinc client from the ports collection, this will be
"/var/db/boinc/". Create it if needed.
Expand the archive you just downloaded into there. This will create subdirectories
"projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu" and add two files there.
Start the BOINC client (again), attaching to the einstein project if necessary.
You should see a message saying "Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform".
Keep a close eye on the results of the application.
Please report any problems you may have or success using this test version on
this thread.
We encourage beta testers to subscribe to this thread as new versions of the application will be
announced there.
This App has the possibility to manually override the automatic CPU detection.
If you see the App getting an illegal instruction signal, please
report the problem in the forum thread and create a file named "CPU_TYPE_0" in your BOINC directory.
This will force the App to use the generic code instead of the SSE one.