Does there exist a console or daemon based version of the BOINC client for Solaris ?
If the above answer is NO then is there anyone interested in working with me to create and release one ?
Does this project have maillists other than the GUI web based "Message boards"?
Is there a cluster or GRID based client that is optimized for distributed computing environments ?

any response at all to any of the above would be considered just totally cool.

Dennis

Does there exist a console or daemon based version of the BOINC client for Solaris ?

If the above answer is NO then is there anyone interested in working with me to create and release one ?

Does this project have maillists other than the GUI web based "Message boards"?

Is there a cluster or GRID based client that is optimized for distributed computing environments ?

Does there exist a console or daemon based version of the BOINC client for Solaris ?

Look here for BOINC, but afaik there's no corresponding Rosetta application available.

Yes, I am lloking into that : 

bash-3.00$ cvs -d $CVSROOT checkout -r stable boinc
cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to alien.ssl.berkeley.edu(128.32.18.176):2401 failed: Connection timed out

without great success thus far in getting the code.

If the above answer is NO then is there anyone interested in working with me to create and release one ?

The problem may be the closed source of the rosetta code itself.

but the BOINC client seems to be open.  Perhaps the BOINC client uses metacodes in order to compile an executable on the host machine.  Seems to be a damn inefficient way to do things however.

Does this project have maillists other than the GUI web based "Message boards"?

Again: Don't know for this particular project, but for BOINC go here.

And of course there is Ralph, the Rosetta Alpha test project with it's own boards.

cool .. thanks .. I'll look there too 

Is there a cluster or GRID based client that is optimized for distributed computing environments ?

I do not have the faintest, but perhaps the same link as in my first answer works as well.

And there's always the BOINC-Wiki for further answers.

thanks for the responses !  

I am simply trying to find ways to get racks of Opteron based gear doing things with a priority 0 thread.

I have to assume that the code has some test harness process.  If not then we would need to develop some strict tests and then extend these tests into a
performance analysis procedures.

Regardless, I think that there are vast amounts of Solaris servers out there
that can add the rosetta daemon into their startup procedures with a fixed
priority class of zero.  It may also be reasonable to look at the Fair
Share Scheduler or perhaps to reduce the time slice quanta down to 10ms.

I am putting the cart before the horse however.  

I will see if I can get a first pass build going.  Then getting Solaris
10 is dirt easy ( its a free download ) and the Sun Studio 11 compiler
tools are also free these days.  Thus I expect some very lean mean super
optimal performance numbers on the AMD Opteron gear I have.

Dennis 

I am simply trying to find ways to get racks of Opteron based gear doing things with a priority 0 thread.