Thursday Exercise 1
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Overview
Attach to the STDSIM project, look at how the client works. Optionally set up alternative Java software and test the difference.
Objective
Extra prize for benchmark results between gcj and sun-java.
Feedback
Report in your Team Wiki pages how you tried to meet the Objective, what the benchmark results were and findings about how the client runs.
Procedure
Look at client directories
To see how STDSIM runs, attach to http://wagtail.aims.ac.za/stdsim with your BOINC client. Take a look in the directory boinc/slots/1 to see what files are necessary to run STDSIM. Interesting files would include stderr.txt and jstdsim.log.
Now compare this directory with boinc/projects/wagtail.aims.ac.za_stdsim/ and see if you can match the files with the ones in the slots directory, and take a look at the results as well (scenario.1, scenario.2, scenario.txt).
Do benchmarks (optional)
For the extra assignment: use /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.00/jre/bin/java and /usr/bin/java and find out what the differences in time spent are on work units.
