Questions and Answers : Wish list : PowerPC 64 version
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greglem Send message Joined: 13 Apr 20 Posts: 1 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Hi, I have an old playstation 3 I'd like to use to contribute computation power to Rosetta@Home. I was able to install linux and compile boinc, then I tried to connect to the Rosetta server. However it seems that the PowerPC architecture is not supported by this project, which is understandable since it is quite an exotic architecture. I was still able to run the benchmark which gave me this: 19-Apr-2020 18:35:41 [---] Running CPU benchmarks 19-Apr-2020 18:35:41 [---] Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress 19-Apr-2020 18:36:13 [---] Benchmark results: 19-Apr-2020 18:36:13 [---] Number of CPUs: 2 19-Apr-2020 18:36:13 [---] 422 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 19-Apr-2020 18:36:13 [---] 1355 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 19-Apr-2020 18:36:14 [---] Resuming computation Therefore I have 2 questions: - Is the computation power given by the benchmark seems like a worthwhile platform to contribute power? - If so, is there any chance Rosetta@Home can be recompiled to support this architecture? As a developer, I'm willing to help if needed. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 30 Dec 05 Posts: 1755 Credit: 4,690,520 RAC: 0 |
Just for some perspective, my phone benchmarked about double those numbers. Rosetta is not open-source, so recompile is not possible. Add this signature to your EMail: Running Microsoft's "System Idle Process" will never help cure cancer, AIDS nor Alzheimer's. But running Rosetta@home just might! https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ |
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