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1) Message boards : Science : New experiment PADLS for distributed computing (Message 9979) Posted 22 Oct 2022 by entity Post: No apologies necessary. Let me browse around github and see what I can find. I did find some source for family_mar (not sure if it is the correct source) but it looked like it had been modified for multi-threading. It had mutex instructions in the code. I haven't had to compile code since I moved into the hardware installation area and then it was mostly on large mainframe systems. This will be a good exercise to help me become acquainted with C and the compilation process. Thank you for the information
2) Message boards : Science : New experiment PADLS for distributed computing (Message 9976) Posted 21 Oct 2022 by entity Post: As mentioned previously, I looked at the github source programs and they contained a lot of BOINC API code. I assume, so they could be run in a BOINC environment and be able to have access and update BOINC variables. Did Walli remove the BOINC API code or did the programs he compiled not have the API code. Regardless, if the program source is available I could probably work with it over time (after I'm relocated) and get it to compile in a Linux environment. However, I'm not familiar with these programs so I probably wouldn't be able to test the compiled code anyway. How do these programs fit together? In what order are they supposed to run? Are ALL the programs in the github repository needed to support this experiment or just a few? etc. etc. I have tried using Wine in the past but kept running into versioning problems between the code and Wine. Code wouldn't run under the version of Wine I had installed. Even if it does run, the overhead of Wine is sometime significant but would be willing to give it a try one more time. I can't use a VM as I don't have access to a Windows OS. Last Windows version I ran was Windows 7 many years ago. In summary, I have a significant amount of compute resources (almost 500 threads) that I was willing to apply to this experiment but it seems I may not be a good fit.
3) Message boards : Science : New experiment PADLS for distributed computing (Message 9970) Posted 20 Oct 2022 by entity Post: It is my understanding that a Linux version of the program doesn't exist. I would be interested in joining the experiment but I only have Linux servers. I'm in the process of relocating and am only running the 128 thread server at this time but others will be available after the first of the year. I looked at the source on github but it seemed to have a lot of BOINC API code in it. I didn't want to tackle pulling all that code out for it to work without BOINC. I tried contacting Natalia by email but it was rejected as spam.