Seti on Ubuntu?

[Wiz]

Friday I put Ubuntu on a 3ghz Intel HT box dual booting with XP Pro.
This went great, and I immediately installed Boinc & Seti.

I let it run all weekend, in fact until this morning.

It's only doing WU in about 6+ hours where the same machine on Win XP does each in less than 2 hours.

Hyperthreading is on in Ubuntu so it's doing two seti units at a time, but averaging a little over 3 hours / WU. HT is off in Windows so it's doing them one at a time in about 1hr 50 mins / WU.

That is 2 WU in 3hr 40 mins under Windows and 2 WU in 6hr+ in Ubuntu.

Is there such a thing as an optimized client for Ubuntu (or Linux)?

 

[Neurodog]

Originally posted by: Wiz
Friday I put Ubuntu on a 3ghz Intel HT box dual booting with XP Pro.
This went great, and I immediately installed Boinc & Seti.

I let it run all weekend, in fact until this morning.

It's only doing WU in about 6+ hours where the same machine on Win XP does each in less than 2 hours.

Hyperthreading is on in Ubuntu so it's doing two seti units at a time, but averaging a little over 3 hours / WU. HT is off in Windows so it's doing them one at a time in about 1hr 50 mins / WU.

That is 2 WU in 3hr 40 mins under Windows and 2 WU in 6hr+ in Ubuntu.

Is there such a thing as an optimized client for Ubuntu (or Linux)?

I don't know about optimized apps for Linux but you could try installing XP in VirtualBox and run it in seamless mode from Ubuntu.

I've started using Ubuntu at work and home last week and I've setup Ubuntu as my VirtualBox inside XP and ran Boinc from Ubuntu.

Edit: for errors

 

[petrusbroder]

There are optimized clients for Linux (incl. Ubuntu). Look here: http://lunatics.kwsn.net/
I have tried the 32-bit version and it worked very well. 😀

 

[danzigrules]

look in the package manager and do a search for powernowd and see if it is installed. I had the same problem 🙂

 

[Wiz]

Thanks guys, I'm dual booting XP & Ubuntu so I've just left it running XP until I get this 'fixed'.
I'll look for powernowd and see what that's about.

 

[Bateluer]

For linux, you have to use the optimized apps with S@H. The BOINC client isn't very well optimized for linux at all, and usually runs at less than half the speed as its windows counterpart. The optimized apps can be a b*tch to install and get working though.