I'm doing a bit of stunt computing, and I'm going to run either seti@home or einstein@home on a RP that I have lying around using some solar power that I also have lying around.

I know that the RP comes with one of a few versions of unix, and that I can load different versions into it as needed. Which one should I use? I'm sure this has been done to death by now. Is there a standard instruction set that everyone uses?

If you're going to run Raspbian Wheezy, you can get the repository Boinc (7.0.27) by going apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager

To run Einstein, just attach to it as you would any other project.

To run Seti, you'll need to get hold of the Daniel Carrion seti v7 app as there isn't a v7 Seti app for Wheezy in the repository:

http://burdeview.blogspot.co.uk/p/raspberry-pi-boinc-project-ive-created.html

Claggy

To add to what Claggy said, Einstein and Asteroids have their own apps for the Pi. That is you can just attach the project and it will download the app.

Einstein take around 31 hours a WU with a medium overclock and Asteroids well I stopped doing them because they were about a week per WU. They quadrupled the size of their work units from when they first started.

Daniel mentions on his blog the SETI work unit took 10 days to complete. He also had a number of other project apps such as Milkyway. I can't comment on run times as I haven't tried the others.

If you can code there was a optimised FFT library released by the Raspberry Pi developers that used the built in GPU that claims a 10x speed increase, but you'd have to modify the apps to use it. The message thread that discusses it is here

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MarkJ

YoYo and Enigma also have apps for Raspberry Pi, but I have no idea about performance.

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My Detailed BOINC Stats

It all seems to lead back to Carrion. Since this runs what looks like a modified version of BOINC, do WUs completed accrue to my account? It will make comparisons to the various PCs that I've had on the project over the years much simpler.

It all seems to lead back to Carrion. Since this runs what looks like a modified version of BOINC, do WUs completed accrue to my account? It will make comparisons to the various PCs that I've had on the project over the years much simpler.

It's a standard BOINC install from the repo. Credit should accrue to your normal account, if you use the same email address as you've setup your other computer(s), when you attach the Pi to the various projects. You can also use BOINCtasks to attach/control the BOINC client on the Pi.

Daniels zip file contains an app_info file and the app and there are instructions on where to put them, that's the only manual bit.

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MarkJ