Hi all,

(Apologies for the double-post if anyone on the E@H board stumbles across it.)

I have not looked too much into this, but have stumbled across comments about OpenSolaris & Solaris not being supported.

Firstly, is this true? Secondly, where are we on this? Is it only supported on one or two projects? I am interested in running this for the E@H project.

I have an OpenSolaris / Solaris box with a nice GPU that could quite happily contribute to E@H and other projects.

Finally, I would be very grateful if anyone has any links or detailed instructions on getting BOINC up and running on either. I have a horrible feeling it is not supported natively. :(

As mentioned, any help is much appreciated and I am willing to get involed as best I can.

All the best,

Gerald

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Firstly, is this true? Secondly, where are we on this? Is it only supported on one or two projects? I am interested in running this for the E@H project.

Yes, it's true. But people are porting over BOINC to other platforms. See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DownloadOther for what's supported these days.

On the project side, it depends on whether or not the source code of the project is open source, before the 3rd party people can try to make a port of it. Not all projects have their source code available as open source and even if they do, it isn't always possible to port over the code and get it working on all platforms.

It may be easier to use a Linux VM and run through that.

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SIMAP, SETI and Yoyo have applications for Solaris/OpenSolaris on SPARC. Solaris x86 applications are only available at SIMAP and SETI.

@Jord : A Linux VM for x86 application does only work on x86. For the SPARC platform you have a extreme overhead to emulate x86 CPUs. A branded Linux Zone on SPARC, requires also Linux SPARC binaries (SETI+SIMAP applications are available for Linux on SPARC).