Today the Astropulse application was launched in the main project.

I have build applications for FreeBSD i386, MacOS PPC 10.4.x/10.5.x and MacOS Intel 10.5.x and put them on my homepage for public use. Some more would be follow soon.

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Can you please inform me how to install this latest edition, since the installer does not work on a Intel Dual G5, even though that is the .zip I downloaded.?

Thank You.

Sorry, the package has no automatic installer in the moment. So there some manual install steps needed. Evetually I can write a little shell or automator script which installs the application automaticly.
A double click on the package would open a new folder with the contents. In the install.astropulse are the install step described.

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Binaries for MacOS 10.4x and 10.5.x on Intel, NetBSD i386 and OpenBSD i386 are now also available.

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Followed the instructions and copied everything to the proper directory. When trying the chown boinc_master:boinc_project /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/* command in Terminal it returned...

Macintosh:~ john$ chown boinc_master:boinc_project /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/*
chown: /Library/Application: No such file or directory
chown: Support/BOINC: No such file or directory
chown: Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/*: No such file or directory

Appears it doesn't like the spaces in that command.

I'm using the PPC version for a Dual G5.

Restarted BOINC and updated the project anyway, but I'm still not getting anything.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

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John

chown boinc_master:boinc_project /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/*

chown boinc_master:boinc_project /Library/Application\ Support/BOINC\ Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/*

You need to add a few of these --> ' \ ' ... ;)

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It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .

You need to add a few of these --> ' \ ' ... ;)

Thank you very much. It was my (cut'n'paste) failure. I've corrected the install docs.

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chown boinc_master:boinc_project /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/*

chown boinc_master:boinc_project /Library/Application\ Support/BOINC\ Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/*

You need to add a few of these --> ' \ ' ... ;)

Thanks very much, Jeffrey. Knew it was something like that, but couldn't remember the syntax (age-related?). :-)

I let it run all night as it was. This morning it started picking up some units to work on, but just a very few (my PC here has over 20 in the queue!). It just ran out of the tasks it got and is back to getting none again...

Sun Aug 3 08:21:05 2008|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 57504 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Sun Aug 3 08:21:10 2008|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks

BTW, I ran the command you posted and got...

chown: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/08jn08aa.10332.12342.8.8.234_1_0: Operation not permitted

Further thoughts?

Thanks.

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John

eventualy a "sudo chown: /Library/Application\ Support/BOINC\ Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/" would help. - But it also easly posible to do this action with the finder by selecting the directory, press APPLE+I and change the owner and the group.

There is a server problem going on in the moment. I got a astropulse WU some hours ago. But my other system did not get any WUs...

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eventualy a "sudo chown: /Library/Application\ Support/BOINC\ Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/" would help. - But it also easly posible to do this action with the finder by selecting the directory, press APPLE+I and change the owner and the group.

There is a server problem going on in the moment. I got a astropulse WU some hours ago. But my other system did not get any WUs...

It took that command (I added a '*' at the end of the string). I had also tried the Finder route, but couldn't find owner and group info - just Sharing & Permissions. There it has boinc_master listed twice, both as Read & Write.

Thanks.

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John

It took that command (I added a '*' at the end of the string). I had also tried the Finder route, but couldn't find owner and group info - just Sharing & Permissions. There it has boinc_master listed twice, both as Read & Write.

Yes, this could also be. It's OK.
If you start the BOINC client again and there is an permition error the BOINC client would show this...

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chown: [path snip] 08jn08aa.10332.12342.8.8.234_1_0: Operation not permitted

08jn08aa.10332.12342.8.8.234_1 is a work unit... the trailing '_0' means that seti is currently crunching that work unit... I would guess that the operation wasn't permitted because the file was in use... ;)

(FYI - In the get info box: owner = 1 head, group = 2 heads, everyone = 3 heads.)

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It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .

It took that command (I added a '*' at the end of the string). I had also tried the Finder route, but couldn't find owner and group info - just Sharing & Permissions. There it has boinc_master listed twice, both as Read & Write.

Yes, this could also be. It's OK.
If you start the BOINC client again and there is an permition error the BOINC client would show this...

Thanks. No errors when I restarted, so - if I could get some WU (both Mac and PC at home are now empty) - all is apparently well.

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John

It took that command (I added a '*' at the end of the string). I had also tried the Finder route, but couldn't find owner and group info - just Sharing & Permissions. There it has boinc_master listed twice, both as Read & Write.

Yes, this could also be. It's OK.
If you start the BOINC client again and there is an permition error the BOINC client would show this...

Thanks. No errors when I restarted, so - if I could get some WU (both Mac and PC at home are now empty) - all is apparently well.

Got it. Thanks.

As for the 'heads' - now I got that, too. For /projects/, Owner and Group are both RW, Everyone is R.

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John

You need to add a few of these --> ' \ ' ... ;)

Thank you very much. It was my (cut'n'paste) failure. I've corrected the install docs.

I got the new SAH 6.03 several weeks ago but I still haven't seen any astropulse work uints. Is there something I am missing?

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I got the new SAH 6.03 several weeks ago but I still haven't seen any astropulse work uints. Is there something I am missing?

There is no official Astropulse app for Mac. You need to download and install it manually.

Get it here. You just need to find the correct version for your Mac.

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Cruiser
Gateway GT5692 L-f-S Edition
-Phenom X4 9650 CPU
-4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM
-500GB SATA HD
-Vista x64 SP1
-BOINC 6.2.19 32-bit client
-SSE3 optimized 32-bit apps

If you wan't to use the SETI 6.03 and the Astropulse application you need to customize the app_info.xml :

 
<app_info>
	<app>
		<name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    	</app>
     	<file_info>
	       	<name>setiathome_6.03_i686-apple-darwin</name>
	  	<executable/>
	</file_info>
     	<file_info>
	       	<name>seti_graphics_6.03_i686-apple-darwin</name>
	  	<executable/>
	</file_info>
	<app_version>
	      	<app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
	     	<version_num>603</version_num>
	     <file_ref>
		  <file_name>setiathome_6.03_i686-apple-darwin</file_name>
	    	  <main_program/>
	    </file_ref>
	     <file_ref>
		  <file_name>seti_graphics_6.03_i686-apple-darwin</file_name>
		  <open_name>graphics_app</open_name>
	    </file_ref>
	</app_version>

     	<app>
       	  	<name>astropulse</name>
     	</app>
     	<file_info>
       	  	<name>astropulse_4.35_i686-apple-darwin</name>
	 	<executable/>
     	</file_info>
     <app_version>
         <app_name>astropulse</app_name>
         <version_num>435</version_num>
         <file_ref>
             	<file_name>astropulse_4.35_i686-apple-darwin</file_name>
             	<main_program/>
         </file_ref>
     </app_version>
 </app_info>

If you wan't to use the SETI 6.03 and the Astropulse application you need to customize the app_info.xml :

 
<app_info>
	<app>
		<name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    	</app>
     	<file_info>
	       	<name>setiathome_6.03_i686-apple-darwin</name>
	  	<executable/>
	</file_info>
     	<file_info>
	       	<name>seti_graphics_6.03_i686-apple-darwin</name>
	  	<executable/>
	</file_info>
	<app_version>
	      	<app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
	     	<version_num>603</version_num>
	     <file_ref>
		  <file_name>setiathome_6.03_i686-apple-darwin</file_name>
	    	  <main_program/>
	    </file_ref>
	     <file_ref>
		  <file_name>seti_graphics_6.03_i686-apple-darwin</file_name>
		  <open_name>graphics_app</open_name>
	    </file_ref>
	</app_version>

     	<app>
       	  	<name>astropulse</name>
     	</app>
     	<file_info>
       	  	<name>astropulse_4.35_i686-apple-darwin</name>
	 	<executable/>
     	</file_info>
     <app_version>
         <app_name>astropulse</app_name>
         <version_num>435</version_num>
         <file_ref>
             	<file_name>astropulse_4.35_i686-apple-darwin</file_name>
             	<main_program/>
         </file_ref>
     </app_version>
 </app_info>

Sounds like too much work to me. I think I will wait for berkeley to come out with the offical version.

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Sounds like too much work to me. I think I will wait for berkeley to come out with the offical version.

No, the install is quite easy. The instructions are included in the Astropulse package...
- You need to stop the BOINC client
- copy the files from the package into /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/ with the finder.
- after this edit the file app_info.xml and cut'n' past the contents of the app_info.xml, which I have posted in the last posting, into the app_info.xml of the projects folder.
- Start the BOINC client again.

Sounds like too much work to me. I think I will wait for berkeley to come out with the offical version.

No, the install is quite easy. The instructions are included in the Astropulse package...
- You need to stop the BOINC client
- copy the files from the package into /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/ with the finder.
- after this edit the file app_info.xml and cut'n' past the contents of the app_info.xml, which I have posted in the last posting, into the app_info.xml of the projects folder.
- Start the BOINC client again.

The instructions also say the ap doesn't support graphics. I like the graphics, it the main reason I run SAH. I will wait for the graphic version. Thanks anyway.

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