Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Rosetta@home does not work on Raspberry Pi 3b +
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| DixonJRome Send message Joined: 8 Apr 20 Posts: 1 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 | 
 Rosetta@home: Notice from server This project does not support computers like arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KKK-n7VQWZe3KryyQUsHQ6IagOZvp_-I | 
| linuxturtle Send message Joined: 9 Jun 17 Posts: 4 Credit: 175,189 RAC: 0 | 
 Same problem here. Would like it to work because then I could compute on my Pi 3 B. | 
| JSTL Send message Joined: 13 Nov 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 9,876,857 RAC: 0 | 
 I have the same issue, with the same notice, running on a Raspberry Pi 4 B. | 
| bkil  Send message Joined: 11 Jan 20 Posts: 97 Credit: 4,433,288 RAC: 0 | 
 Rosetta only runs in 64-bit mode on these. See here: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13167&postid=93199 https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13770&postid=94108 By the way, could anyone here please share what power consumption from the wall of a fully loaded raspberry Pi 4 (or other ARM platform) has without anything plugged in other than power & SD card (i.e., no HDMI, network, USB)? | 
| RegedUser1001 Send message Joined: 9 Apr 20 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,967,981 RAC: 0 | 
 I had the same problem. As mentioned in the post before, it was due to Raspbian being a 32-bit OS. I installed Debian 10 following this guide: https://pete.akeo.ie/2019/07/installing-debian-arm64-on-raspberry-pi.html and it solved the problem. Keep in mind that the RPi 3b+ has just 907 MB of RAM. A single R@H task is between 400 and 500 MB. Even if you allow maximum memory usage, you will be able to utilize only two cores at most. | 
| bkil  Send message Joined: 11 Jan 20 Posts: 97 Credit: 4,433,288 RAC: 0 | 
 No problem, you can contribute the remaining cores to other disease research projects for example WCG. | 
| motov Send message Joined: 8 Apr 20 Posts: 4 Credit: 4,568,429 RAC: 0 | 
 Good info on running R@H on ARM SBC https://www.mininodes.com/how-to-run-rosettahome-on-arm-powered-devices/ My headless Pi4 are running 6-10 watts with load averages of 4.0 - 4.2. | 
|  hnapel Send message Joined: 8 Apr 20 Posts: 8 Credit: 835,346 RAC: 0 | 
 hj there, I got it to work on raspbian too, I had this already installed and it seemed more work to re-image with ubuntu64, the steps are: - enter arm_64bit=1 in /boot/config.txt - run sudo rpi-update - edit /etc/boinc-client/cc_config.xml and add: <cc_config> ... <options> <alt_platform>aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu</alt_platform> </options> </cc_config> references: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=250730 https://www.element14.com/community/people/gam3t3ch/blog/2020/04/09/rosettahome-on-raspbian-pi-4 | 
|  hnapel Send message Joined: 8 Apr 20 Posts: 8 Credit: 835,346 RAC: 0 | 
 Note I have a a PI4 with 4GB of RAM, I think the 1GB and 2 GB versions should in fact not have been produced, considering the memory requirements and the 64 bit version of raspbian only further developed on the PI4 I think trying it on the rpi3 is a dead end. | 
| bkil  Send message Joined: 11 Jan 20 Posts: 97 Credit: 4,433,288 RAC: 0 | 
 See this one: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13795 Running Rosetta on Raspberry Pi 3B+ (how to guide) | 
| linuxturtle Send message Joined: 9 Jun 17 Posts: 4 Credit: 175,189 RAC: 0 | 
 I tried, but unfortunately my desktop doesn't load with the kernel in 64-bit mode for some reason. Anyone else had this? | 
| bkil  Send message Joined: 11 Jan 20 Posts: 97 Credit: 4,433,288 RAC: 0 | 
 I don't know, but perhaps you may ty to increase GPU RAM and some other boot options. | 
| linuxturtle Send message Joined: 9 Jun 17 Posts: 4 Credit: 175,189 RAC: 0 | 
 Didn't figure that out, but no matter. It's now accepting and computing tasks. I've limited it to using one CPU core so I don't run out of RAM for the time being. Depending on usage I might be able to get it up to 2 cores. | 
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