Yes, it is in that directory.

Yes, I did as you described, but am still getting \"platform powerpc64-ps3-linux-gnu not found\".

How do I implement anonymous platform?

The anonymous platform is actually the use of an app_info.xml...

But as I understand it, if I read the Thread at SETI@home, you have to use the BOINC Client in the sah-cell.tar.gz you´ve already downloaded, to crunch SETI on your PS3...

If the app_info.xml is in the projects/setiathome... directory, it should readen by every BOINC client and use the described application in the app_info.xml. This should also work with the PS3 GRID BOINC client.
But, it is strange, that you get the platform not found message. This is an indicator, that the BOINC client did not see the app_info.xml or have some problems with it. - Is the app_info.xml readable for the user under which BOINC run ? - Also, is the projects/setiathome... directory read and executable for the user under which BOINC is running ?

Another thing I read is, that the PS3 SETI app is in Alpha, and actually very slow, compared to the crunching power the Cell processor has...

As the first step, it is a very good improvment for SETI and the PS3 users. I think a \"slow\" application is better than none.
The porting to the PS3 to utilize full performance is quite not easy. The volunteer, which has ported SETI to the PS3 had done a lot of changes to improve the application perfomance and make usage of the SPEs. I think, he has done a very good job. With his work and changes he improved the performance by factor 3 to 5 from the first to the actual version !

Hmmm. Thanks for all the feedback. All the permissions and locations are correct. I\'ll mess around with it some more once I am done crunching the PS3GRID WUs in my queue.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

...This should also work with the PS3 GRID BOINC client.
But, it is strange, that you get the platform not found message...

I don´t know if I understand everything correct in the SETI PS3 Thread as english is not my native language, but I think I have read that his client does not submit the same platform tag like the PS3Grid client, and therefore you get no work with the second one maybe?

But maybe I´m totally wrong here... ;-)

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Answers to a bunch of questions in this thread.

You need to run a client compiled to run on the PS3 architecture, this can be the one included in the SaH package or the one found here. But the one in the seti package will not get work from here as it identifies the platform differently.

The app_info.xml must be in the setiathome.berkeley.edu directory which must be in the projects directory which must be in the directory the boinc_client is started in.

When using app_info.xml for a project, that project will default to the anonymous platform and not the platform defined by the processor architecture as determined by the client.

you will get messages like this upon startup:
Host Project ID Date Message
localhost.localdomain --- 1 7/16/2007 6:08:36 PM Starting BOINC client version 5.10.6 for powerpc64-ps3-linux-gnu
localhost.localdomain SETI@home 5 7/16/2007 6:08:36 PM Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
localhost.localdomain boincsimap 6 7/16/2007 6:08:36 PM Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform

If not then the app_info is not in the correct directory.

The directory name must exactly match the url of the project that you used to attach (less the http:// part and any other \'/\' converted to \'_\'
example: for SIMPAP the directory is boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de_boincsimap

I did try the seti package from http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/~gkhanna/sah-cell.tar.gz by itself and also tried to use the client from here, using the 2.3A app and the xml file included in the package, both times I got work, but they produced an error immediately. I did not go further and have not tried to identify the error, I assumed it had to do with it being an alpha test app.

Heres the error I got
Host Project ID Date Message
localhost.localdomain SETI@home 63 7/15/2007 12:23:45 PM Reason: Unrecoverable error for result 24my00aa.6109.9138.934640.3.104_1 (process exited with code 127 (0x7f))

Hmmm. Thanks for all the feedback. All the permissions and locations are correct. I\'ll mess around with it some more once I am done crunching the PS3GRID WUs in my queue.

Yery strange. Could you please post the messages from a complete restart of the BOINC client till the error message happens.
If this would not work, we should enable the debuging of the BOINC client, to see what\'s going wrong on your system.

Heres the error I got
Host Project ID Date Message
localhost.localdomain SETI@home 63 7/15/2007 12:23:45 PM Reason: Unrecoverable error for result 24my00aa.6109.9138.934640.3.104_1 (process exited with code 127 (0x7f))

I think it is the best to post this failure at the SETI PS3 thread to look what\'s going wrong.

Hmmm. Thanks for all the feedback. All the permissions and locations are correct. I\'ll mess around with it some more once I am done crunching the PS3GRID WUs in my queue.

Yery strange. Could you please post the messages from a complete restart of the BOINC client till the error message happens.
If this would not work, we should enable the debuging of the BOINC client, to see what\'s going wrong on your system.

What a difference a reboot makes. It shouldn\'t be like that...this is linux, not windows.

Anyway, I successfully downloaded a result, and it failed after 5 seconds. The result is here if anyone wants to look at it:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=575159811

I will also post this on the S@H PS3 thread.

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Team: SETI.USA

I was considering running BOINC via command line, but I don\'t see a \"boinc_cmd\" executable (a command-line interface to a running BOINC core client). Is it really missing? Or am I overlooking it somehow?

I did not see it the package dated 12Jul (5.10.6).

It was in the 1st version released (5.9.11) in the \'bin\' folder.

Thanks. Is this something I can just take from the generic linux BOINC package, and use? Or does it need to be customized too?

I tried downloading the latest linux package, and copying the boinc_cmd executable into my BOINC dir. When trying to run it, I get \"./boinc_cmd: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.\" I tried again with the 64 bit linux package with the same result. Both were the 5.10.8 versions.

Now what? I really want to run this project via command line, but you really need this command to do that.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

I tried downloading the latest linux package, and copying the boinc_cmd executable into my BOINC dir. When trying to run it, I get \"./boinc_cmd: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.\" I tried again with the 64 bit linux package with the same result. Both were the 5.10.8 versions.

Now what? I really want to run this project via command line, but you really need this command to do that.

Hmmm, I don´t understand what advantages you think the commandline will give you?

If you install the latest BOINC Client from PS3GRID, and you start BOINC with run_client, the Client will run all the time in the background, and if you want to change some things like suspend a project or update it, you click on run_BOINC. This will open the manager and you can do the changes and then close the manager again. Even after closing the manager, the client will run in the background...

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I tried downloading the latest linux package, and copying the boinc_cmd executable into my BOINC dir. When trying to run it, I get \"./boinc_cmd: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.\" I tried again with the 64 bit linux package with the same result. Both were the 5.10.8 versions.

This messages are OK. The PS3 and x86 Linux are complete diffrent architectures. The PS3 is based on the Power/Power PPC architecture, and so you can not let running binaries for the x86 architecture on the PS3.

Anyway, I successfully downloaded a result, and it failed after 5 seconds. The result is here if anyone wants to look at it:...

Strange, aborted with exit code 131.
Can you please post the output of the command \"ldd $BOINCDIR/projects/seti*\" -> change $BOINCDIR in the directory where BOINC is installed.

Hmmm, I don´t understand what advantages you think the commandline will give you?

I don\'t want to run the gnome gui at all. It uses up resources that PS3GRID might need.

Instead, I am booting to the login screen and leaving it there. Then, from my Mac, I ssh into the PS3, run the command line in the background, and exit.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Strange, aborted with exit code 131.
Can you please post the output of the command \"ldd $BOINCDIR/projects/seti*\"

$ ldd $BOINCDIR/projects/seti*
BOINCDIR: Undefined variable.

-> change $BOINCDIR in the directory where BOINC is installed.

You lost me on this one.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Strange, aborted with exit code 131.
Can you please post the output of the command \"ldd $BOINCDIR/projects/seti*\"

$ ldd $BOINCDIR/projects/seti*
BOINCDIR: Undefined variable.

-> change $BOINCDIR in the directory where BOINC is installed.

You lost me on this one.

Ups. Sorry I meaned you have to substitude $BOINCDIR to the directory where you BOINC client is installed. For example BOINC is installed in /opt/boinc you have to type \"ldd /opt/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/seti*\".
Other solution : cd in the directory where BOINC is installed is and issue \"ldd projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/seti*

Okay, here it is:

$ pwd
/home/zombie67/Desktop/boinc_client_ps3grid_12Jul
$ ldd projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/seti*
linux-vdso32.so.1 => (0x00100000)
libspe.so.1 => /usr/lib/libspe.so.1 (0x0ff8d000)
libssl.so.6 => /lib/libssl.so.6 (0x0ebc0000)
libcrypto.so.6 => /lib/libcrypto.so.6 (0x0ef60000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0fd40000)
libelf.so.1 => /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 (0x0fb80000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x0f130000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x0eb80000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0e8c0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x0f160000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x0fd60000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0ea90000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf7e79000)
/lib/ld.so.1 (0x0ffc0000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x0ef30000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x0eda0000)
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x0f0e0000)
libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x0eef0000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x0f100000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x0fd10000)
libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x0ee40000)
$

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Eric, the ldd output look good. I think it is a application related problem. I hope, that Guarav could help you.