Hi, sorry about my english but i've installed the boinc software on a alphaserver DS15. The software is running ok , but it says that there's nothing to proccess with this platform. Anybody knows why ?
This is the message :

2006-09-15 17:05:43 [rosetta@home] Sending request to scheduler: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
2006-09-15 17:05:44 [rosetta@home] Scheduler RPC to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded
2006-09-15 17:05:44 [rosetta@home] Message from server: platform 'alpha-dec-osf5.1' not found
2006-09-15 17:05:44 [rosetta@home] No work from project
2006-09-15 17:05:44 [rosetta@home] No work from project
2006-09-15 17:05:44 [rosetta@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds
2006-09-15 17:05:44 [rosetta@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds
2006-09-15 18:05:44 [rosetta@home] Deferring communication with project for 22 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds
2006-09-15 18:05:44 [rosetta@home] Deferring communication with project for 22 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds


I've another machines that could run it too.

Regards

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Whoa, nice rig! If that site is the correct reference, it says you are either running "Tru64 UNIX or OpenVMS". Unfortunately UNIX is not supported by Rosetta. Here is a list of the supported platforms. BOINC does not run on UNIX either.

Can you run Linux on that machine?

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you're rigth it's running tru64, i downloaded the boinc package from a link in the boinc site( http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php ).
it's a pitty, i could install linux , but it's not suported too. Linux over x86 only is suportted.
thanks

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can you/would it be worth running an emulator?

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SIMAP is the only project in the moment, which has binaries for TRU64.
I am still working on the SETI binaries for TRU64, but I have a lot of problems on TRU64. It looks not good for any SETI binaries in a short time.
On SIMAP, SETI and Einstein are binaries for Linux on Alpha available.
Also there is are FreeBSD on Alpha binaries on SETI available.

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can you/would it be worth running an emulator?

So far I know, is there no good, and performant, emulation on TRU64 or Linux on Alpha for x86 hardware available.

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Unfortunatley I can't help as I don't either. I believe Simap to be a worthy project also though and wish you luck.

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Thanks to all, i'll try to subscribe this machine to the simap proyect.

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Seti-BOINC has been ported to HP-UX - perhaps that's close enough to your flavor of Unix to require not too much work to get running.

(edit - never mind, I missed the reference to SETI below)

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Seti-BOINC has been ported to HP-UX - perhaps that's close enough to your flavor of Unix to require not too much work to get running.

Normaly, I would say, you are right. But I have still a lot of problems at the porting of the TRU64 SETI app....
There are a lot of math problems with the SETI Enhanced on TRU64, which not happens on any other Unix I have ported before. I am still investigate for the cause of the math problems.

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