iBozz wrote:I am happy to leave those two Macs waiting for F@H work if there will be some, but if G4 processing is indeed dead then I can turn them to other distributed computing use.
I emailed Pande but received a standard reply suggesting that the answer to any query is sought on here. Fine, i can understand that the volume of emails must be staggeringly high and that this forum is the best place for information and help.
May I suggest, however, that those who control the Folding project let us know, with a definitive statement, whether G4 processing is indeed dead, please?
It is remarkably frustrating not to know whether to keep waiting or move on and donate my spare G4 capacity to some other project.
Not a definite answer on Mac-work from FAH, but it's easy to run a BOINC-project but still asking for FAH-work and crunch FAH-wu immediately if you get any. Since you needs an older BOINC-client to work on PPC, after installation you'll need to:
1: Make (or edit if already present) a file called cc_config.xml, located in your BOINC data-directory (exact location should be displayed on start of BOINC-client).
Use Notepad or similar.
2: cc_config.xml should include atleast:
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<cc_config>
<options>
<exclusive_app>The_Name_of_the_FAH-PPC-CORE.EXE</exclusive_app>
</options>
</cc_config>
(Mac probably won't use an .exe-extension, but if where are any, remember to include it.)
Note, atleast with older BOINC-clients, the app-name is CaseSENsitive.
3: Save the cc_config. If you're running BOINC Manager (GUI), one choise in advanced view is to "read config file", choose this option.
If not using Manager, re-boot computer should also work.
4: Use a small cache, so you won't sit with much work in case FAH has any.
It's possible to include multiple <exclusive_app> and also <exclusive_gpu_app> (not applicable for Mac/PPC), just include multiple lines if desirable.
The effect of <exclusive_app> is, the moment a FAH-wu is downloaded and the FAH-core starts running, BOINC will pause crunching (if you've not selected to "run always" in BOINC), and continue BOINC after FAH-core has finished.