Hi!

Seems to me that I'll have to edit this message many times as it triggers some anti-spam check if posted in one step.

My problem: I've compiled BOINC CC 5.9.10 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. In principle it runs fine, however I have problems running Einstein. As this project doesn't support named platform neither natively nor via alternative platform, I have to use anonymous platform. This was fine until (and including) 5.8.15, but not anymore. Here's output from BOINC client:

2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.9.10 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Data directory: /home/metodk/boinc                    2007-05-09 08:46:42 [Einstein@Home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform    2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 [Family 15 Model 33 Stepping 2]                                               2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8  apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cmp_legacy
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Memory: 15.53 GB physical, 9.54 GB virtual            2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Disk: 238.31 GB total, 150.62 GB free
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Version change (5.9.8 -> 5.9.10) 
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [climateprediction.net] URL: http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID: 417453; location: work; project prefs: default                     2007-05-09 08:46:42 [Einstein@Home] URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 574403; location: work; project prefs: default                             2007-05-09 08:46:42 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 2271751; location: work; project prefs: default                              2007-05-09 08:46:42 [rosetta@home] URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 496760; location: work; project prefs: default
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [SETI@home Beta Test] URL: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/; Computer ID: 6546; location: work; project prefs: default
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2007-05-06 13:04:28)
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Host location: work
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for work; using your
defaults                                                                        2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 7949.60M
B                                                                               2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 14309.28MB
2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB                2007-05-09 08:46:42 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2007-05-09 08:47:17 [Einstein@Home] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user2007-05-09 08:47:17 [Einstein@Home] (not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)                                                                      2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0287.90_S5R2__76_S5R2c_1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0287.90_S5R2__75_S5R2c_1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0287.90_S5R2__74_S5R2c_1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0287.90_S5R2__73_S5R2c_0
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0287.90_S5R2__72_S5R2c_0
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0287.90_S5R2__118_S5R2c_3
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0287.90_S5R2__134_S5R2c_3
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0287.90_S5R2__122_S5R2c_3
[color=red]2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] [error] No app version for result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] [error] No app version for result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] [error] No app version for result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] [error] No app version for result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] [error] No app version for result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] [error] No app version for result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] [error] No app version for result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -1
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] [error] No app version for result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -1[/color]
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
2007-05-09 08:47:27 [Einstein@Home] Reason: requested by project

Why the highlited lines?

Needless to say that Einstein server thinks my host has those tasks while my host doesn't know anything about it.

Here's my app_info.xml for Einstein:

<app_info>
    <app>
        <name>einstein_S5R2</name>
        <user_friendly_name>Hierarchical all-sky pulsar search</user_friendly_name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>einstein_S5R2_4.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <file_info>
        <name>einstein_S5R2_4.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu.so</name>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>einstein_S5R2</app_name>
        <version_num>418</version_num>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>einstein_S5R2_4.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>einstein_S5R2_4.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu.so</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>

Note: I first tried this with version 5.9.8 and saw these symptoms. When I saw anouncement about problems regarding 64-bit platform and alternative platform being solved, I decided to try 5.9.10. No luck though :(

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Metod ...

The 64bit client will only download a 32bit application when the project has updated its scheduler to the latest version. I think the latest version is 5.14
Einstein still uses 5.09

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The 64bit client will only download a 32bit application when the project has updated its scheduler to the latest version. I think the latest version is 5.14
Einstein still uses 5.09

Yeah, thought so ...

My primary concern, though, is why anonymous platform mechanism doesn't seem to work for me anymore?

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Metod ...

My primary concern, though, is why anonymous platform mechanism doesn't seem to work for me anymore?

Hmm, stupid spam thing. ;)


the Linux version in test is 4.21
See http:// einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=5682 (remove the space)

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Well, I've found out what I've had problems about: obviously there was a new tag in app_info.xml introduced:

<platform>platform name</platform>

Things are back to normal using modified version of app_info.xml (added the highlited line) ...

<app_info>
    <app>
        <name>einstein_S5R2</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>einstein_S5R2_4.21_i686-pc-linux-gnu</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <file_info>
        <name>einstein_S5R2_4.21_i686-pc-linux-gnu.so</name>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>einstein_S5R2</app_name>
        <version_num>421</version_num>
        [color=red]<platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform>[/color]
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>einstein_S5R2_4.21_i686-pc-linux-gnu</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>einstein_S5R2_4.21_i686-pc-linux-gnu.so</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>

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Metod ...

Hello, just installed BOINC 5.9.10 for OS X and found a couple of annoyances:

1. The projects don't seem to pause when "Suspend" is selected on the GUI. This had happened before, but was fixed in the recent official versions.
2. The manager registers the client's processes as "system" and not as "nice" processes, as it used to. That way, the processor revs up on laptops, which makes them overheat. Please revert to the previous behaviour, since it was much more logical.

Keep up the good work.