Any chance CPDN will get \"ahead of the front\" and have a globe graphic for LINUX?? (or a simple graphic front end / globeview on demand) ??


JSC (Xcamel)

> Any chance CPDN will get "ahead of the front" and have a globe graphic for
> LINUX?? (or a simple graphic front end / globeview on demand) ??
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> JSC (Xcamel)
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Late evening greetings, JSC,

You can get the globe by migrating to your " /projects/climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk_cpdnboinc" directory and typing " ./viz "

I understand that there is a GUI for Linux in the works; rumor perhaps, as I have no firm information.

HTH.
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire (1921-1997), educator, author.

the word I hear is that Rom W. of BOINC is currently porting the GUI using wxwidgets for Linux & Mac (and perhaps to replace the Win GUI as well?) No ETA though.

Also a "./viz" note -- if you are running more than one workunit (i.e. dual CPU) you can pass in an argument which is your workunit name to attach to that "world's" shared memory.

@astroWX - Thank you. BTW: I have worked on and off with Rom since he got started with the boinc alpha/beta. I started with the beta in feb of 2003. I do have the alpha code for the linux gui for boinc itself, which is interesting.Question...if all 4 cpus on the particular box I'm running would dismantle and crunch ordered pieces of the same "workunit", wouldn't it be a bit more efficient? (do to the size/complexety of the CPDN workunits)

Also.. FYI - I also have the #setiboinc channel on irc.freenode.net if anyone is interested in stopping in to chat..

JSC aka Xcamel
(Team Space Truckin @ SETI)

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There have allways been poor people. This in not the fault of the rich.
Universal truths, #16

> Question...if all 4 cpus on the particular box I'm running would
> dismantle and crunch ordered pieces of the same "workunit", wouldn't it be a
> bit more efficient? (do to the size/complexety of the CPDN workunits)
>
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> There have allways been poor people. This in not the fault of the rich.
> Universal truths, #16
>

Hi, again, JSC,

I think the Core Team had enough trouble cramming the 500,000+ lines of Fortran code, developed by a host of Climate/weather scientists over 20 years for Cray super-computers (and used daily by the British MetOffice to forecast weather), into PCs and getting it to work at all is accomplishment enough -- let alone making dedicated versions for eddies off the main current. (Yes, the question has been asked before, in the original CPDN.)

This was originally to be a Linux project -- but the real world intervened, as it is wont to do. Because there are MANY more Windoze boxes around and about, the original realease was for, well, Windoze. Nearly a year later, comes the great merge, thanks in large measure to BOINC. (And more than a few sleepless nights on Carl's part.)

I fear it will be a cold day in the underworld before we see what you ask.

(Off topic: Who wrote your sig., modestly called "Universal truths, #16"?))

Cheers.
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire (1921-1997), educator, author.

(Off topic indeed!)

@AstroWX - the same person who wrote "&**! Happens"

But more importantly, on Paulo..
. the rhetoric which announced the importance of dialogue, engagement, and equality, and denounced silence, massification and oppression, did not match in practice the subliminal messages and modes of a Banking System of education. Albeit benign, Freire's approach differs only in degree, but not in kind, from the system which he so eloquently criticizes. (Taylor 1993)

So you might at well quote Rev Al (no so)Sharpton.