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New Server, Lots of CPU. But on FreeBSD

Evadman

Evadman

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Hiya, long time no see gents.

Over the last month or so (almost done, yay!), I consolidated the servers and NAS's I have in my house into one ginormous box to save on electricity. It is a quad CPU TYAN board with quad core AMD Opteron 2356's @ 2.3GHz with 32 GB of ram, because you can never have too much ram. Theres an adaptec 31205 card and all that junk for drives, and I have a ton (6 TB and counting if you care)

However, the box basically sits during the day doing very little, until I get home and start banging on it. So it leaves lots of time to chew though work units. But I am new to FreeBSD (I figured best way to learn was to jump in with both feet) and I can't find a client for any DC project for FreeBSD, let alone one that will run on 16 cores. Any thoughts?
 
sounds like some good idle ressources!!

As far as I know you can run WorldCommunityGrid (all subprojects) on freebsd with this guide (it might be hard for beginners): http://www.worldcommunitygrid....iewthread?thread=10976 If it's too hard or you don't like medical projects, there's Leiden Classical which offers a freebsd app, a SETI freebsd app is here: http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index...dule=Downloads;catd=18 Finally TSP has a freebsd app.

EDIT: I found a complete and easy guide: http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/boinc.html
Seeing this I think you can basically run any linux DC project on BSD even without special science app!
 
I'm so jealous (not that my office could handle any more heat producers...). I miss having my Xeons so much.
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
F@H has a Linux client. Will that work for you ?
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I think so. Reading the information that Philippart posted, BSD has a linux emulator that will allow BSD to run anything that Linux can. I need to lean some more before I jump on those tho.
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Markfw900
F@H has a Linux client. Will that work for you ?
Click to expand...

I think so. Reading the information that Philippart posted, BSD has a linux emulator that will allow BSD to run anything that Linux can. I need to lean some more before I jump on those tho.
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The comment on Stanford says:
Linux (x86) and BSD *combined uniprocessor and SMP client* (64-bit required for SMP)
You download it, and just say at a terminal window(from the smp client directory after install and config):

./fah6 -smp

And you are running !
 
Boom! goes the computer. Now it won't turn on. Heh, more debugging now 😛
 
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