BOINC and Windows xp 64bit

[Schadenfroh]

hello. I should be getting in windows xp 64bit edition today and i was wondering if SETI BOINC will work fine with it? (the seti boinc for win32). thanks

 

[Rattledagger]

If you manages finding enough drivers and so on for win64 so it's a point to install it, you shouldn't have any problems running seti@home/BOINC...

It's possible if you're trying BOINC v4.25 something else is using port 1043 so refuses to run, but if so you can try v4.42.

 

[Ronin]

Might want to know that there are optimized clients for x64 for BOINC available, too.

 

[zaph]

I ran 32-bit boinc for months on several beta and release candidate builds of Win xp64.
On my A64 2800 the times were roughly equivalent to a AthlonXP2800+.

I noticed no driver or port issues with Boinc.

 

[SirUlli]

Originally posted by: zaph
I ran 32-bit boinc for months on several beta and release candidate builds of Win xp64.
On my A64 2800 the times were roughly equivalent to a AthlonXP2800+.

I noticed no driver or port issues with Boinc.

have you test the latest optimised Windows clients

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=14594

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=14557

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=14378

only for Info my Athlon64 3.200+ with the optimised Client

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=318394



old times with this host

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=318394&offset=100

anyone notice the difference


the most improvement ist to use a speziall FFTW C subroutine

http://www.fftw.org/

and the new Imhell compiler

only for Info

Sir Ulli

 

[ViRGE]

So for the laymen out here, can someone tell me how to get started with BOINC on XP64? I just finally installed the release version of XP64, and want to give BOINC a whirr.

 

[Rattledagger]

Just download the BOINC client, would recommend the latest development-version v4.44, install preferably as service, let the benchmark finish, if uses proxy-settings configure these, attach to whatever projects you wants, and possibly select BOINC to connect through any firewalls you're using.


Don't know of any optimized win64-seti-applications, but you can use the optimized win32-application. Look at http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=14822
for links to download the P3-version. How to install is mentioned in 1st post in this thread, but would recommend to not use the outdated boinc.exe from any of the optimized archieves.