baremetal OS

crash893 · 2010-01-27, 04:09

http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html

Found this today on stumbleupon. I was wondering if anyone thinks it has any potential for our work here.

Ive long dreamt of a "live cd" that was stripped out of everything but prime95 and configured to just start running unattended

(and possibly report results back to a central server to pick back up in the case of a reboot or if the live cd was moved to another machine)

This seems like it might be intresting but im not sure how hard it would be to port prime95 to assembly.

cheesehead · 2010-01-27, 06:08

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Originally Posted by crash893

This seems like it might be intresting but im not sure how hard it would be to port prime95 to assembly.

Perhaps about as hard as simply helping Return Infinity to implement its plans to add "the ability to write data back to the disk, a C/C++ library for applications, and network support."

hj47 · 2010-01-27, 07:50

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Originally Posted by crash893

Ive long dreamt of a "live cd" that was stripped out of everything but prime95 and configured to just start running unattended

This has already been done, but for a different DC project called folding@home.

I'm sure it's possible to do it for mprime, though.

CADavis · 2010-01-28, 23:56

i would think a usb drive would be better than a cd so you could save progress and assignments...

Uncwilly · 2010-01-29, 01:32

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Originally Posted by CADavis

i would think a usb drive would be better than a cd so you could save progress and assignments...

Most machines would require a change to the bios to make that available. (In my experience.)

lfm · 2010-01-29, 08:50

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Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Most machines would require a change to the bios to make that available. (In my experience.)

Older machines yes. Most current BIOS support booting from USB.

Uncwilly · 2010-01-29, 14:51

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Originally Posted by lfm

Older machines yes. Most current BIOS support booting from USB.

I thought that most machines have that turned off as a default. Yes it is supported, so were LS-120's, but most folks never used that one.

lfm · 2010-01-30, 16:04

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Originally Posted by Uncwilly

I thought that most machines have that turned off as a default. Yes it is supported, so were LS-120's, but most folks never used that one.

Yes, you probably do not want it on normally.
Its easy to turn on and off.

2010-01-27, 04:09	#1
crash893 Sep 2002 100101000₂ Posts	baremetal OS http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html Found this today on stumbleupon. I was wondering if anyone thinks it has any potential for our work here. Ive long dreamt of a "live cd" that was stripped out of everything but prime95 and configured to just start running unattended (and possibly report results back to a central server to pick back up in the case of a reboot or if the live cd was moved to another machine) This seems like it might be intresting but im not sure how hard it would be to port prime95 to assembly. Last fiddled with by crash893 on 2010-01-27 at 04:09

2010-01-28, 23:56	#4
CADavis Jul 2005 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 10101010₂ Posts	i would think a usb drive would be better than a cd so you could save progress and assignments...