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This package creates symlinks for the SETI@home binary and its app_info.xml
file in Debian's default BOINC data directory /var/lib/boinc-client. If you
are not using the default data directory you need to create these symlinks
yourself.
Refer to the paragraph "Installing and configuring BOINC application packages"
in /usr/share/doc/boinc-client/README.Debian for detailed instructions.
About optimizing and compiler flags
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The package uses only default -O3 optimization flags for the compiler.
Consequently, users are not unlikely to be unsatisfied with the
performance of the Debian-binary when comparing it with the results
achieved on other systems.
However, there is little else that can be done about it, the build daemons
that assemble the packages across all platforms cannot know on which
particular machine the resulting binary will be executed. To rescue us
just a bit:
* i686 machines are all presumed to have SSE2, a respective configure
option to SETI is set
* amd64 machines are all presumed to have SSE2 and SSE3, also passed
to the SETI configuration
It is straightforward to self-compile the package. The debian/rules
file already accommodates for a substitution e.g. of the compiler and
extra flags for further improvements.
About CUDA support
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The CUDA code is separated from the regular SETI client, i.e. demanding
a separate checkout from the source code repository. Upstream plans to
merge that with the regular distribution, eventually. We will wait for that
rather than complicating things on our end.
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