What DC stuff can i run on Mac OS X?

[LaBang]

I've used seti on OS X before and was pleased. Are there any other DC things that i can do on OS X? Thanks

 

[Confused]

Macs FLY at RC5! They're about 3-4 times faster than the fastest Athlon if i remember correctly!

Not sure what other DC projects run on it, so here's a bump for you 🙂

Confused

 

[Poof]

SETI & Folding@Home both have MacOS X clients, in addition to dnet's RC5 & OGR as mentioned by Confused. 🙂

 

[Crazee]

I have Seti running on a G3 450 using the OS x CLI. I am about to retire it though and replace it with an Athlon XP 2000. (Bring the home based fleet to 3 1800s, 1 2000+ and 1 dual 1.2MP along with the 5 node soon to be 7 node 1800 crack rack 😀)

Anyway the times for my G3 using the OS X CLI tend to be about 15.5 hrs per WU (By far the slowest in my fleet). Depending on the model you have you may be faster or slower. The fastest G4s get to around the 8hr mark from what I understand.

 

[LaBang]

Originally posted by: Crazee
I have Seti running on a G3 450 using the OS x CLI. I am about to retire it though and replace it with an Athlon XP 2000. (Bring the home based fleet to 3 1800s, 1 2000+ and 1 dual 1.2MP along with the 5 node soon to be 7 node 1800 crack rack 😀)

Anyway the times for my G3 using the OS X CLI tend to be about 15.5 hrs per WU (By far the slowest in my fleet). Depending on the model you have you may be faster or slower. The fastest G4s get to around the 8hr mark from what I understand.

thanks everyone for the responses.

damn, man. you spend way too much money on this stuff 🙂 oh and why are you running os x on your G3? isn't it slow as heck?

 

[Crazee]

I don't think I spend too much, but then again I'm not Crazee for nuthin 😉 🙂

I got OS X on it because I wanted to check it out and I didn't want to buy a new mac to do it. Besides is was slow with OS 9 too 😉 🙂

 

[torque2k]

Whoa, haven't visited here in QUITE a while... but I can NEVER pass up an opportunity to help out a fellow Mac user! 😀

Folding@home: Folding@Home for OS X
distributed.net (dnet): dnet download for OS X (PPC) -- RC5, OGR, or both, but G4s ROCK at RC5!
xdnetc (dnet GUI): Download Xdnetc (GUI frontend for dnet for OS X) -- click the Download link at top of page

These, as well as SETI, are optimized heavily for the G4 Altivec core. I run dnet (in RC5 only mode) 24/7 in a terminal window, but the xdnetc GUI client is nice. I personally haven't tried Folding@home on OS X, so I don't know how the performance is compared to a PC, but RC5 crunching is definitely fast: my dual processor G4/450 is averaging 7.25 Megakeys/sec compared to my Athlon 1000/266 on a DDR board running currently at 3.6 Megakeys/sec!!!

I guess it depends on how you want to help TeamAnandtech (I'm assuming, of course, that you've joined?). If you wish to make the most of your hardware, run dnet in RC5-only mode (comment out the OGR in the configurations options by typing (in a Terminal window):

/yourpathinsertedhere/dnetc --config

Then in the configuration options, enter 2, then 9. It should be changed to read "DES,CSC,OGR=0,RC5".

I say to disable OGR not because I don't personally like it, but the code doesn't take any advantage of the G4 processor, so OGR numbers are about even with PCs for performance.

If you're not comfortable with the command line, get the GUI frontend. If you need help with the command line, I suggest visiting my favorite OS X site, www.macosxhints.com

Enjoy!
Dan