Running Climateprediction.net Linux binaries under Windows!

jenesuispasbavard
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Running Climateprediction.net Linux binaries under Windows! May 13, 2021 2:21:28 GMT

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Post by jenesuispasbavard on May 13, 2021 2:21:28 GMT

WSL2 to the rescue!

CPDN no longer has any tasks that run under Windows since last year, and I've been missing out on calculating how doomed we are, so I thought I'd give it a shot with their Linux applications.

Installed BOINC client in Ubuntu under WSL2, installed BOINC Manager in Windows as a service (so I could modify the localhost port it uses at startup), connected to the BOINC client running in the VM (also localhost, but the default port), and now it works as if I'm just running the manager in Windows!

Last Edit: May 13, 2021 2:25:56 GMT by jenesuispasbavard

Bozo
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Running Climateprediction.net Linux binaries under Windows! May 13, 2021 16:10:35 GMT

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Post by Bozo on May 13, 2021 16:10:35 GMT

May 13, 2021 2:21:28 GMT jenesuispasbavard said:

WSL2 to the rescue!

I've been missing out on calculating how doomed we are

lol

That made me smile

no idea what WSL2 is - it all sounds rather complicated.

Last Edit: May 13, 2021 16:10:58 GMT by Bozo

jenesuispasbavard
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Running Climateprediction.net Linux binaries under Windows! May 13, 2021 18:58:24 GMT

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Post by jenesuispasbavard on May 13, 2021 18:58:24 GMT

May 13, 2021 16:10:35 GMT Bozo said:

May 13, 2021 2:21:28 GMT jenesuispasbavard said:

WSL2 to the rescue!

I've been missing out on calculating how doomed we are

lol

That made me smile

no idea what WSL2 is - it all sounds rather complicated.

WSL is the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and version 2 runs a real Linux kernel virtualized inside Windows through Hyper-V. Extremely useful for "natively" running Linux applications in Windows.

I have Windows installed as my main OS primarily for games, but some of my development work required testing on Linux because it needed to run on a supercomputer. So thanks to WSL, for the last couple of years I haven't needed to dual-boot Linux or install a whole distribution in Virtualbox; I can just run those applications directly in Windows! And I just realized last week that the same could apply to CPDN's Linux-only binaries.