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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1664 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi SekeRob,
----------------------------------------I agree with you. The Raspberry Pi community has a "community spirit". Additionally with the Raspberry Pi 3, we have a really powerful, very affordable and easy to deploy platform (finally more open and more flexible than stick computer). Cheers, Yves --- PS: No, I am not willing to install Android on a RPi ! |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1664 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Dear WCG Technical staff,
----------------------------------------you have to think about the possible large impact of Raspberry Pi in the schools and for pupils willing to do a little bit more in sciences. Yves |
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doutz
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I so very vaguely remember one of the techs said something on the matter, and indeed (A private comment): https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=373020 Interesting thread, thanks for digging that one out. The reservations re hardware, performance, up-time and so on that are aired in the thread may have been valid back in 2006, but now a decade later and with Raspberry Pi 3 hardware I do not see any of the concerns aired back then as being that relevant any more (well, certainly not "blocker" reasons for not doing WCG on Raspberry Pi 3). So: how to get OET and/or Zika to produce a build for Raspberry Pi 3? There seems to be enough interest out there... |
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doutz
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think about the possible large impact of Raspberry Pi in the schools and for pupils willing to do a little bit more in sciences. Love that idea! Not only do they get into the whole Raspberry Pi / IT thing, but they can also get into computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, applied physics, etc. The more I think about this, the more I see it being a real game-changer in education (not just in schools, but also e.g. adult/further education colleges, etc - this could really take off!) |
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vlado101
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I am actually also very interested in buying pi 3 and just setting it to run on some of the other projects. Hopefully the more people are interested the more powerful versions will come out.
----------------------------------------Also there was the opportunity of creating a Pi cluster and having at least 3 working together. If you google it some of them have some pretty cool. http://lifehacker.com/link-multiple-raspberry...a-souped-up-di-1761556292 Has anyone attempted this? I think even if you spend about 300$ to get a couple of those boards the performance will still not be as good as a PC, but I am sure the electricity cost will be much less.  |
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vlado101
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Just wanted to update the people that are on this thread. After getting my raspberry pi 3 and getting it updated it works really well. There was a project that is currently supported by it which is Universe@home. So far I had 79 tasks that were successfull (albeit it took 20 to 18 hours for each task).
----------------------------------------Hopefully WCG will be able to configure their infastructure to support this as I would set up a small far to continuosly run all of their tasks :) |
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doutz
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There was a project that is currently supported by it which is Universe@home There still is ;-) In fact, there are several projects - as other posts in e.g. this thread mention - that run on Raspberry Pi, just none of them from WCG... You may find this of interest if you didn't already know of it: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Project_list . I'm running Einstein@Home and Universe@Home right now and am generating approx 30k credits per month with one Raspberry Pi 3. |
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SekeRob
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You can browse the [endorsed] project list on a PC in BOINC Manager, add project view, which then shows icons for the platforms supported... skim through them and if it has, yes, a raspberry icon, it has [could have] a science app for it. Oddly, universe ATM is not showing that icon [contact the Berkeley forum if you want to get it corrected]. Asteroids and NFS has one it appears.
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Former Member
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Since there is such a community spirit, is this project on GitHub? If it is, someone in the community could fork it and make an ARM version. I suppose the projects would need to be up there, too?
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doutz
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is this project on GitHub? I already offered to cross-compile ( http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=522392 ) but WCG projects are closed-source - so no, it won't be on github (or any other open-source repo for that matter). |
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