Message boards : Solver development and optimisation : 32-bit application?
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Send message Joined: 27 Sep 26 Posts: 2 Credit: 116,657 RAC: 1,977 |
Please, if you can, include a 32-bit Linux application for this project. My 32-bit linux computer can already take part in the standalone project; it automatically compiled a suitable application. |
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Send message Joined: 23 Sep 26 Posts: 125 Credit: 9,212,366 RAC: 538,766 |
Thanks for asking, and thanks for running the standalone client - you are already contributing to exactly the same search. Your machine compiled the solver on its own, and its results go into the same pool as everyone else's. A 32-bit BOINC application would give you a second route to the same work, not more work done. The cost is not the build, it is the maintenance: we went from version 2.14 to 2.28 in five days, and every platform has to follow each time. A platform nobody tests already cost us 859 lost work ranges last month. We would also need to audit the 64-bit arithmetic before publishing anything 32-bit. If several people ask for it, I will do the audit and add the platform properly. For a machine that is already computing, the standalone client is both faster for you and safer for the project. |
