Einstein@Home Beta Testing

• published 2009-10-06
• Improved, faster ABP1 (SSE) App built with gcc-4.4
• app_info.xml does contain entries for ABP1 3.07 thru 3.10 and S5R5 3.05, tasks assigned to older apps will error out

1. You may want to set the E@H project to get "No new work" and finish the pending work first to be on the safer side when switching platforms. You may also want to manually abort the Tasks that have not yet been started to immediately start running tasks with the new Application.
2. Exit the BOINC client.
3. Download the following file. On modern Windows systems it should open the archive automatically or after double-clicking the downloaded file, on older versions you may need to explicitly expand it e.g. using WinZip.
   • einsteinbinary_ABP1_3.11_windows_intelx86.zip
     md5sum: 0c32822007471f0eeffecb0f3d642397
4. Locate the einstein project directory. If you installed everything with default settings, it should be "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\einstein.phys.uwm.edu" ("C:\Program Files\BOINC\projects\einstein.phys.uwm.edu" on older BOINC, see here if you couldn't find it)
   Put the files from the zip archive into there.
5. Start the BOINC client (again). "Allow more work" to the project if you had disabled that before.
   In the message tab you should see a message saying "Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform".
   Allow work for the project if you disbaled it previously.
6. Keep a close eye on the results of the application.
   If the application returns erroneous results, invalid results, or produces client errors, then please rename or move the app_info.xml file in order to stop using the beta version of the application.
7. Please report any problems you may have or success using this test version on this thread.
   We encourage beta testers to subscribe to this thread as new versions of the application will be announced there.

• published 2009-08-19
• Should run ABP1 tasks on available CUDA (2.1) devices
• Runs S5R5 tasks on remaining CPU cores
• SSE FFTW/GSL builds like 3.09 CPU beta
• Fixed two potential bugs in GPU code that could have caused segfaults
• app_info.xml does contain entries for ABP1 3.07 and 3.09 and S5R5 3.05, tasks assigned to older apps will error out

1. You may want to set the E@H project to get "No new work" and finish the pending work first to be on the safer side when switching platforms. You may also want to manually abort the Tasks that have not yet been started to immediately start running tasks with the new Application.
2. Exit the BOINC client.
3. Download the following file. On modern Windows systems it should open the archive automatically or after double-clicking the downloaded file, on older versions you may need to explicitly expand it e.g. using WinZip.
   • einsteinbinary_ABP1_3.10_windows_intelx86_cuda.zip
     md5sum: f011c637e9845061bbbe9d457baa1e3a
4. Locate the einstein project directory. If you installed everything with default settings, it should be "C:\Program Files\BOINC\projects\einstein.phys.uwm.edu\"
   Put the files from the zip archive into there.
5. Start the BOINC client (again). "Allow more work" to the project if you had disabled that before.
   In the message tab you should see a message saying "Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform".
   Allow work for the project if you disbaled it previously.
6. Keep a close eye on the results of the application.
   If the application returns erroneous results, invalid results, or produces client errors, then please rename or move the app_info.xml file in order to stop using the beta version of the application.
7. Please report any problems you may have or success using this test version on this thread.
   We encourage beta testers to subscribe to this thread as new versions of the application will be announced there.

• published 2009-08-19
• Should run ABP1 tasks on available CUDA (2.1) devices
• Runs S5R5 tasks on remaining CPU cores
• SSE FFTW/GSL builds like 1.09 CPU beta
• Fixed two potential bugs in GPU code that could have caused segfaults
• app_info.xml does contain entries for ABP1 1.07 and 1.09 and S5R5 3.05, tasks assigned to older apps will error out

1. You may want to set the E@H project to get "No new work" and finish the pending work first to be on the safer side when switching platforms. You may also want to manually abort the Tasks that have not yet been started to immediately start running tasks with the new Application.
2. Stop any BOINC clients you have that may be running at this time.
3. Download the following file:
   • einsteinbinary_ABP1_1.10-pc-linux-gnu_cuda.tar.gz
     md5sum: dd5bd88191d69bb763d6ae261a450792
4. Locate the einstein project directory. This will usually be "BOINC/projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu" in your home directory.
   Expand the archive you just downloaded into there, adding five files.
5. Start the BOINC client (again). "Allow more work" to the project if you had disabled that before.
   You should see a message saying "Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform".
6. Keep a close eye on the results of the application.
   If the application returns erroneous results, invalid results, or produces client errors, then please rename or move the app_info.xml file in order to stop using the beta version of the application.
7. Please report any problems you may have or success using this test version on this thread.
   We encourage beta testers to subscribe to this thread as new versions of the application will be announced there.