Einstein@Home Power User Applications

The Apps that are published here are meant for "power users", i.e. people who more or less know what they are doing with their computers and with BOINC. The instructions are short, if there are any at all, and not suitable for beginners. Support from the project team is limited.

These Apps usually trade in some features or compatibility we want to keep in the official Apps for speed, or run on rather exotic OS for which we can't provide much support. The Apps have been tested by the project so far that they run successful on at least one configuration (usually the one that they have been built on) and don't pose a danger to the project. They usually come with an app_info.xml file that uses the anonymous platform, assigns a valid application name and a serial number that allows us to easily keep track of these results in the database.

Use them at your own risk (i.e. credit).

GNU/Linux x86 SSE
  • codebase of 4.33 App (MacOS Intel)
  • Only run this if you're sure that your CPU supports SSE
  • "Hough" prefetching (ass)
  • hand-coded SSE hot-loop
  • linear sin/cos approximation ("+2")
  • graphics in a separate program ("BOINC APIv6")
  • Discuss this App here.
  • einstein_S5R3_4.35_i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
    md5: be254325e5033531cda0c8dc69c44c37
MS Windows
  • This App is obsoleted by the new App 4.46 currently in Beta Test
  • Windows App with SSE "hot loop" and prefetching
  • Only run this if you're sure that your CPU supports SSE
  • graphics in a separate program ("BOINC APIv6")
  • Discuss this App here.
  • einstein_S5R3_4.36_windows_intelx86.zip
    md5: cb23ba856bec7ea9bdd47af0ac1ce0ae
MacOS X PPC AltiVec (G4 & G5)
  • Hand-crafted AltiVec "Hot-Loop"
  • Compiled with autovectorization
  • Should run on all G4 and G5 systems from MacOS 10.3 on
  • graphics in a separate program ("BOINC APIv6")
  • Discuss this App here.
  • einstein_S5R3_429_powerpc-apple-darwin.zip
    md5: 71c65cc846f3d9a89b6a7728f9453de9
Linux on PPC64 (PS3)
BOINC Core Client 5.9.3.
  • Command-line only.
  • Unmodified. Not suitable for the PS3Grid project.
  • The archive expands into a BOINC folder containing two files: boinc and boinc_cmd.
  • boinc_5.9.3_powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu.tgz
    md5: c8f15d79a6c7d6e56aea5f6c711058b0
Einstein@Home App
FreeBSD/x86 SSE
  • hand-coded SSE hot-loop. linear sin/cos approximation, assembler prefetching
  • no graphics program included, but writes xml information into shared memory ("BOINC APIv6")
  • Only run this if you're sure that your CPU supports SSE
  • Discuss this App here.
  • einstein_S5R3_4.34_i386-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz
    md5: 0ca2632824bed3a0527d003b0bc2b11f


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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant NSF-0200852 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

Copyright © 2008 Bruce Allen for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration