Anyone know yet whether cpdn would run on Raspberry Pi with its ARM achitecture? I am probably going to get one and if it will it could run 24/7 from a solar panel with battery backup.

It'll be as good as any pocket calculator. :)

Basically:
Not fast enough
Not enough memory
Wrong processor architecture

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Thanks Les,
I half expected that answer and if I had done my research first would not have needed to post. Still I guess there will be distributed computing for it sooner or later if the rate at which the first batch have sold is anything to go by. I am sure one or two of them will be things I consider worth while.

If you are going to try the raspberry, choose one that has hardware floating point, and choose an OS that enables hardware floating point since not all OSes have it enabled.

When running BOINC, you'll have to use ver 6.x at the moment unless any significant updates happened recently to ver 7.x

I know it's already been tried on the OLPC a few years ago, and there is also some mention of raspberry in boinc_opt recently a couple months ago using seti and boinc 6.x at that time.

I agree with Les, that Climate Prediction is a bit too big for a raspberry, but some other smaller projects are within it's reach if you are still looking to climb that mountain. ;-)

David Carrion has compiled a number of project apps for the Pi. CPDN isn't one of them. As the others have said it wouldn't be fast enough.

The memory (or rather lack of) would be addressed by the model B, revision 2 seeing as its got 512Mb.

As for hardware floating point, yes it has it but that doesn't make much difference as its so slow anyway, even when you overclock to 1GHz.

There is a BOINC 7.0.27 in the repo along with the manager, both work fine.

David's blog and link to downloads can be found here.

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... also Asteroids@home.