Boinc daemon
So I'm not quite sure if anyone would really care to run on the Raspi in the current form and whether it would make sense to offer an official app for it, given the long crunching time. Too bad we cannot use the GPU on the Raspi for general purpose calculations (FFT would be the most interesting thing to put on the GPU in this case).
I am currently working on some improvements that would bring the completion time closer to 10 CPU days. The deadline for returning results is 14 days, so you would have to run on a Raspi almost 24/7 to meet the deadline.
For comparison: On a mid-range PC with a (multicore) Intel CPU, each core can finish a BRP4 task in roughly 12 hours.On a Raspi overclocked to 950 Mhz, a BRP4 task finished in 12 days.Of course, the ARMv6 was never meant to be a number cruncher, so the performance is, well, moderate : With rather minor modifications of the build scripts and the application source code itself, I got the BRP4 search app compiled and running on the Raspi. We currently do not support ARM CPUs, but the source code for the app that would run best on the RasPi, the BRP4 search for radio pulsars, is under GPL open source license and therefore readily available, ports to other platforms are welcome.Īfter getting my own Raspi, I just couldn't resist to try on it (under Raspian), just for the fun of it.
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I'm one of the project admins and scientific software engineers at the BOINC project.