Sunday, 2 December 2012

Einstein@Home 'Binary Radio Pulsar Search' available on Pi

I've managed to get Einstein@Home BRP app compiled and running on the Raspberry Pi. It was a bit of a nightmare trying to compile as the build script that comes with the source over at http://albert.phys.uwm.edu/license.php was just way to automated for my liking. I had to hack and slash to get it compiled. I've had a look at the grav. wave search software and that seems even worse!

Need to wait for task to finish (for validation), but the application binary is available over on my project page if you want to give it a shot.




Posted by at

4 comments:

  1. Heinz-Bernd Eggensetin3 December 2012 at 01:51

    Hi!

    It would be cool to have the modified source code and modified build scripts as part of the download.

    Actually, since this Einstein@Home app is released under the GPL license, it is a legal obligation to do so if you distribute binaries derived from the E@H apps.

    Thanks for your interest in Einstein@Home feel free to contact me if you have any qustions (I'm a member of the project staff)

    Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein


    ReplyDelete
  2. Unknown3 December 2012 at 03:03

    Thanks for your reply!

    I understand what you're saying about the GPL license obligations. I haven't had a chance to set up a repo as of yet, but will get around to it VERY shortly.

    I'm happy to see the project staff have stumbled across my post.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Heinz-Bernd Eggensetin5 December 2012 at 21:19

    You're welcome. Over the years, the Einstein@Home project has benefited a lot from contributions of volunteer developers so we are always happy to see people experimenting with the source code.

    Cheers
    Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein

    ReplyDelete
  4. Heinz-Bernd Eggensetin28 January 2013 at 21:59

    Just to let you know: Einstein@Home will soon switch to a new, compressed, file format for the BRP search that you ported to the Raspberry Pi. This means that your previous app will no longer work and you need to rebuild, the sources are at the usual location (foolow links from Einstein@Home home page).

    Cheers
    HB
    Einstein@Home admin&developer

    P.S.: We are also currently testing smaller workunits (1/8th the size of workunits for desktop and GPUs) that should finish in less than a day on a moderately overclocked RasPi. If all goes well, we should be officially supporting the RasPi running under Debian Wheezy in February or March latest.


    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)