Running Prime95 on raspberry pi

[Omer08]

I want to run prime95 on raspberry pi 4 (8 GB RAM) but I'm not exactly sure on how to do it.There was another forum post on the same question but all it said was to download the source and compile it yourself. I'm not sure how to do this can anyone help?

[Uncwilly]

Are you running linux on your Pi? If you are you need to run mprime (get it here: https://www.mersenne.org/download/)

[Omer08]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Are you running linux on your Pi? If you are you need to run mprime (get it here: https://www.mersenne.org/download/)

I'm running raspberry OS on it.

[Omer08]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Are you running linux on your Pi? If you are you need to run mprime (get it here: https://www.mersenne.org/download/)

Is it FreeBSD 7: 32-bit? i thought that because the file name starts with mprime.

[Uncwilly]

From a quick look the Raspberry OS is based on Debian which is a linux distro.

The download name starts with P95, but the software inside is mprime.

[Omer08]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

From a quick look the Raspberry OS is based on Debian which is a linux distro.

The download name starts with P95, but the software inside is mprime.

Its opening but when i press execute it doesnt do it

[paulunderwood]

Prime95/mprime is Intel/AMD X86/64 only. For ARM you need to run mlucas.

Basically:

1. Download the asimd image. bunzip it.
2. tune.
3. communicate with the server through the included python script.
4. run and wait for the number to complete. (~4 months for wavefront tests)

[nomead]

For reference, here are some benchmarks that I ran last year, but with 64-bit Gentoo (the official OS was still 32-bit only at that point) and an older version of Mlucas.

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by Omer08

I want to run prime95 on raspberry pi 4 (8 GB RAM) but I'm not exactly sure on how to do it.

Welcome!
In general, see the attachment at https://www.mersenneforum.org/showpo...91&postcount=2 for what's possible on what hardware with what software.
It's part of a large repository of reference info indexed at https://www.mersenneforum.org/showth...922#post521922

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by paulunderwood

Prime95/mprime is Intel/AMD X86/64 only. For ARM you need to run mlucas.

Basically:

1. Download the asimd image. bunzip it.
2. tune.
3. communicate with the server through the included python script.
4. run and wait for the number to complete. (~4 months for wavefront tests)

Note also the new version of the py-script enhanced by Loïc Le Loarer to be Primenet-API-capable with run-progress-updating. That is currently available via separate small download (link near top of the Mlucas README.html page), I will start bundling it with the program sources and ARM binaries in v20.

The new script is nice because it makes it easy to track progress of one's various compute devices via the Primenet server's CPUs page for one's account, and progress-updating is further useful in preventing assignments being run on slower micro-PC devices from expiring before one has completed them.

@OP: Once you've completed the 'tune' step for your machine (the self-test described at the readme), please do be so kind as to post the resulting mlucas.cfg file here. Also useful is to monitor your CPU temps during the self-test, to see if any throttling is likely going on.

Have fun!