EINSTEIN@HOME - Team FreeBSD

A team dedicated to the users of FreeBSD running BOINC under linux compatibility mode, or a native FreeBSD BOINC build. Team FreeBSD is dedicated to users of FreeBSD, but not limited to JUST the users. Anyone with the interest in developing a community of people interested in technology, open standards, NIX or BSD based operating systems are welcome and encouraged to earn credits and share ideas and conversation.

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System Down Announcements, as of January 7th 2006

12 January, 2007 15:23

January 7, 2006
The Einstein@Home project was down for the last few days because of the continuing fileserver problems. Another server has been put in place for the primary fileserver and we hope this temporary solution will be stable.

January 4, 2006
The Einstein@Home project was down for the last couple days as a result of fileserver problems. The main fileserver has temporarily been replaced and we are hopeful the project will be more stable now.

December 29, 2006
The Einstein@Home project was down for the last day as a result of fileserver problems. The project should be totally back online by 18:00 UTC Dec 29.

December 28, 2006
The Einstein@Home project has been having database problems over the last two weeks. Your client will likely continue to have problems connecting to E@H until the problems are sorted out on our end. We are working on the problem and will try to have it solved as soon as possible.


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Way to hit a million everyone!

03 December, 2006 10:49

Congratulations to everyone for surpassing a million credits!


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Einstein@Home Beta Testing - FreeBSD HOWTO

25 August, 2006 18:05

This documentation was re-distributed from this source:

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/app_test.php

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:
  1. 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)
  2. Stop any BOINC clients you have that may be running at this time.
  3. Download the following file:
  4. 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.
  5. 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".
  6. Keep a close eye on the results of the application.
  7. 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.


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BOINC survey

24 August, 2006 23:22

Now would be a good time to take the BOINC survey and let the world know this application is widely used on other systems, not just Windows and Linux.

Here is what we have so far:


9926 Windows
886 Macintosh
1935 Linux
200 Other


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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:

EINSTEIN@HOME is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. EINSTEIN@HOME is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.


My name is Andy Wright - the founder, but really the creator of Team FreeBSD. If you want me to add any links, or have any questions or inclinations for such things related to our group (or to just say hi) - send me an e-mail: einstein@extracted.org or Skype name: extracted


''It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure'' -- Albert Einstein