[CFT] boinc-astropulse port

[Rene Ladan]

2010/2/9 Morgan Wesström <freebsd-ports at pp.dyndns.biz>:
> Rene Ladan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> attached is a shell archive for version 5.06 of the Astropulse client of
>> the SETI at Home project, as well as an infrastructure-only update of the
>> SETI at Home client.  The latter is required because both subprojects share
>> the same app_info.xml file.
>>
>> Work units for Astropulse seem quite scarce, which means I didn't get
>> one myself yet.  So I'm not sure if the calculations will be correct,
>> but on the other hand the source code is original, except for some
>> changes to make it compile against the current release version of
>> SETI at Home instead of the current development version.
>>
>> I would be interested in the actual results of the boinc-astropulse port.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rene
>>
>
> May I direct your attention to the Lunatic's website where they provide
> an optimized 64-bit version of the Astropulse client.
> http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=38
> It has been tried and tested for at least 6 months and the results
> verified. It's also 4-5 times faster than the original client.

I see.  You can of course use those binaries if you like.

The goal of the port and those binaries are different: the binaries are indeed
optimized for SSE2 and SSE3 enabled 64-bit (amd64) machines and will not
run on other machines. The port is more like a wrapper around the native
source code so it will run on any FreeBSD machine.

I guess the optimizations from Lunatic also make their way back into the
official source code?

> /Morgan

Regards,
Rene
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