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Message 605 - Posted: 17 Nov 2024, 19:32:21 UTC

Is it planed to support other operating systems like macOS or Linux on ARM?

I have helped a lot of BOINC projects to port their applications to other platforms and have a lot of experience.
Do you need any help to port the GAIA applications? - It's no problem for me to sign an NDA.
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Message 710 - Posted: 16 Jan 2025, 11:19:47 UTC - in response to Message 605.  

yes, that would be good, especially ports for older RPi Arm v6 32 bit, there are few projects yet many of them out there .
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Message 761 - Posted: 9 Jun 2025, 8:36:13 UTC

I have 16 Raspberry Pi version 4 that run other projects like Einstein (Linux running on 64-bit ARM)

Is there a chance that you can create an applications for ARM as well.

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Message 770 - Posted: 30 Aug 2025, 12:12:11 UTC

Yery sad, that there is no response from the project.
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Message 773 - Posted: 13 Sep 2025, 13:00:01 UTC - in response to Message 770.  

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the management of this project.
This question has come up over the years for various OS's. The project has just enough work for the folks with Linux systems that are signed up.
If you look at the server status, the amount of inprogress work, and the amount of time a task takes, are pretty well balanced.
Some people will look and see 29000 tasks ready. Some will say, that's not even a days work given the number of participants.
In fact, the project has gone a year at times without work.
There isn't any benefit to the project to put it's limited programming resources into solving a problem it doesn't have.
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Message 823 - Posted: 23 Jan 2026, 7:14:20 UTC

What about spacious@home? Will they require more computing power and could potentially benefit?
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Message 833 - Posted: 26 Jan 2026, 16:12:55 UTC - in response to Message 823.  

What about spacious@home? Will they require more computing power and could potentially benefit?


IMHO both Gaia and Spacious are struggling to keep the computers that are attached to their Projects full of tasks every day,
which is key to the long term running of the Projects. Finding people who can port the tasks to different OS's is never a bad thing but
letting people use those apps is a different story.

Lots of Projects have come and gone because of the stress we crunchers put on them, ie keeping the internet up and running 24/7 for
people all over the World and sometimes with as few as 1 task or as many as a few hundred, or more, tasks at a time.
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