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1. Join Milkyway@Home if you do not have an account. Site: https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/ Note: Record your email address, password and weak account key. Note: If you do not have a team, join "Raspberry Pi". 2. Make a backup of your current microSD chip 3. Update system and install Boinc (in a terminal shell) $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade $ sudo apt-get install dnsutils whois unzip lsb-release $ sudo apt-get install chkconfig dos2unix $ sudo apt-get install git $ sudo apt-get install cmake $ sudo apt-get install build-essential $ sudo apt-get install boinc $ sudo apt-get clean $ sudo reboot $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade $ sudo reboot 4. Get and compile the Milkyway project $ cd /home/pi $ mkdir /home/pi/projects $ cd /home/pi/projects $ mkdir /home/pi/projects/milkyway $ cd /home/pi/projects/milkyway $ git clone https://github.com/Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client.git $ cd milkywayathome_client $ git submodule init $ git submodule update --recursive $ cd /home/pi/projects/milkyway $ mkdir /home/pi/projects/milkyway/build $ cd /home/pi/projects/milkyway/build $ cmake ../milkywayathome_client -DBOINC_RELEASE_NAMES=ON -DSEPARATION=ON -DNBODY_OPENMP=OFF -DSEPARATION_OPENCL=OFF $ make 5. Create our boinc files $ cd /home/pi/projects/milkyway/build/bin $ ls -l [You will see the output from the compiler. [In this example we will use the following file name:] ["milkyway_separation_1.36_unknown-system"] $ cp milkyway_separation_1.36_unknown-system milkyway [Create and add the following text to the new file] [note the version number matches our executable] [remove the space between tags < >] $ nano app_info.xml < app_info > < app > < name >milkyway< /name > < /app > < file_info > < name >milkyway< /name > < executable/ > < /file_info > < app_version > < app_name >milkyway< /app_name > < version_num >136< /version_num > < file_ref > < file_name >milkyway< /file_name > < main_program/ > < /file_ref > < /app_version > < /app_info > 6. Install the executable in boinc $ cd /var/lib/boinc-client/ $ ls -l [You should see a "projects" folder. If not, create it.] [$ sudo mkdir projects] [$ sudo chown boinc:boinc -R projects] $ cd projects $ sudo mkdir milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway $ sudo chown boinc:boinc -R milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway $ cd milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway $ sudo cp /home/pi/projects/milkyway/build/bin/milkyway . $ sudo cp /home/pi/projects/milkyway/build/bin/app_info.xml . $ cd /var/lib/boinc-client/ $ sudo chown boinc:boinc -R projects $ cd /home/pi 7. Attach to the Milkyway project $ boinccmd --project_attach http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ < your_weak_key > 8. Status and Help $ boinccmd --help $ boinccmd --get_state $ more /var/lib/boinc-client/stdoutdae.txt $ top [press "q" to quite] 9. Results should start showing up in your Milkyway account Site: https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/login_form.php?next_url=home.php =================== 1. Uninstall instructions [The Milkyway@Home group will update the software from time] [to time. This may cause validation errors in your account.] [The following will remove the software and you can repeat] [the steps above to re-install.] $ boinccmd --project http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ detach $ rm -Rf /home/pi/projects/milkyway $ sudo rm -Rf /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway =================== Credit: The above information would not have been possible without the help of Jake Weiss. Mr. Weiss is a project scientist with the Milkyway@Home group. |
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