The Wii has a PowerPC CPU with about 730 MHz and 64 MB memory. - For some smaller projects would this be OK.

I think the problem is, that the Wii has a propertary OS. It difficutly to port directly to this OS.
There is a Linux LiveCD in work (WiiLi - www.wiili.org) which boots Linux without any modifications. So it would be posible to use still existing BOINC Linux PPC ports and still existing science applications (SETI, SIMAP and Einstein) for Linux PPC.

But I see the problem, that the Wii eventualy overheats. - Has the Wii a fan build in ? - Eventualy the CPU load must be reduced with the BOINC CPU throtteling feature.

Hi,
There is a fan in the Wii, but user can build an other for their Wii… :)

For BrookGPU, I have re-found the homepage : http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/index.html , but I have read the project is old.

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Time for another update....

Here is a collection of the available BOINC binaries with BOINC > 5.x, according to the third party site (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DownloadOther):

Stefan Urbat ; http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.shtml :
- Solaris x86 (i686 and AMD64)
- Solaris SPARC BOINC client 5.4.9 and SETI App for UltraSPARC I/II and IIIi
- Linux on AMD64 (Opteron), Itanium (IA64), PPC and Power CPUs, SPARC and Alpha
- HPUX 10.20/11.0/11i (V1 and V2.) on PARISC
- HPUX 11i (V.1 and V.2) on IA64 (Itanium)
- FreeBSD i386 and Alpha
- NetBSD i386
- OpenBSD i386

FreeBSD Ports ; http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=boinc-setiathome&stype=all
- FreeBSD, source via the FreeBSD Ports

Yuri Dario ; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seti-warp/message/1467
- OS/2 i386

Nekochan ; http://www.nekochan.net/nekoware/index.php?path=current/
- Irix

Debian ; http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client and http://packages.debian.org/boinc-manager
- Debian Linux for the most platforms

SETI@SummoneR.mikrocomp.hu ; http://www.mikrocomp.hu/seti/
- OpenBSD x86_64

Lars Bausch ; http://www.dotsch.de/boinc
- AIX on Power and PowerPC
- DragonFly BSD on i386
- FreeBSD Alpha, i386, x86_64/AMD64
- HP-UX IA64 (11i V.2, V.3) and PARISC (10.20, 11.0, 11i V.1..3)
- Irix 6.5.x on MIPS
- Linux Alpha, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC/Power/PS3/iSeries, SPARC, zSeries
- NetBSD i386, MIPS EL, Power/PowerPC, x86_64
- OpenBSD x86, SPARC64
- SCO OpenServer and UnixWare LKP Howto
- Solaris SPARC and x86
- TRU64

Tobias Neumann ; http://tobias-neumann.eu/boinc
- OpenBSD PPC/Power

Eric Myers / Pirates@home ; http://www.spy-hill.net/help/boinc/linux-rpm.html
- Distribution indipendend Linux i386 RPM packages

Rechenaugust ; http://www.rechenaugust.de/boinc
- Suse Linux 10.x, 11.x on i686 and x86_64

A BOINC client for FreeBSD SPARC64 is now available on my homepage...

I've released a BOINC client for OpenBSD on Alpha.

I've also released a OpenBSD x86_64/AMD64 BOINC client.

It's time for another update....

Here is a collection of the available BOINC binaries with BOINC > 5.x, according to the third party site (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DownloadOther):

Stefan Urbat ; http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.shtml :
- Solaris x86 (i686 and AMD64)
- Solaris SPARC BOINC client 5.4.9 and SETI App for UltraSPARC I/II and IIIi
- Linux on AMD64 (Opteron), Itanium (IA64), PPC and Power CPUs, SPARC and Alpha
- HPUX 10.20/11.0/11i (V1 and V2.) on PARISC
- HPUX 11i (V.1 and V.2) on IA64 (Itanium)
- FreeBSD i386 and Alpha
- NetBSD i386
- OpenBSD i386

FreeBSD Ports ; http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=boinc-setiathome&stype=all
- FreeBSD, source via the FreeBSD Ports

Yuri Dario ; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seti-warp/message/1467
- OS/2 i386

Nekochan ; http://www.nekochan.net/nekoware/index.php?path=current/
- Irix

Debian ; http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client and http://packages.debian.org/boinc-manager
- Debian Linux for the most platforms

SETI@SummoneR.mikrocomp.hu ; http://www.mikrocomp.hu/seti/
- OpenBSD x86_64

Lars Bausch ; http://www.dotsch.de/boinc
- AIX on Power and PowerPC
- DragonFly BSD on i386
- FreeBSD Alpha, i386, SPARC64, x86_64/AMD64
- HP-UX IA64 (11i V.2, V.3) and PARISC (10.20, 11.0, 11i V.1..3)
- Irix 6.5.x on MIPS
- Linux Alpha, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC/Power/iSeries, Playstation 3, SPARC, zSeries
- NetBSD i386, MIPS EL, Power/PowerPC, x86_64
- OpenBSD Alpha, i386, SPARC64, x86_64/AMD64
- SCO OpenServer and UnixWare LKP Howto
- Solaris SPARC and x86
- TRU64

Tobias Neumann ; http://tobias-neumann.eu/boinc
- OpenBSD PPC/Power

Eric Myers / Pirates@home ; http://www.spy-hill.net/help/boinc/linux-rpm.html
- Distribution indipendend Linux i386 RPM packages

Rechenaugust ; http://www.rechenaugust.de/boinc
- Suse Linux 10.x, 11.x on i686 and x86_64

I've also released a FreeBSD (IA64) BOINC client.

Here is a collection of the available BOINC binaries with BOINC > 5.x, according to the third party site (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DownloadOther):

Stefan Urbat ; http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.shtml :
- Solaris x86 (i686 and AMD64)
- Solaris SPARC BOINC client 5.4.9 and SETI App for UltraSPARC I/II and IIIi
- Linux on AMD64 (Opteron), Itanium (IA64), PPC and Power CPUs, SPARC and Alpha
- HPUX 10.20/11.0/11i (V1 and V2.) on PARISC
- HPUX 11i (V.1 and V.2) on IA64 (Itanium)
- FreeBSD i386 and Alpha
- NetBSD i386
- OpenBSD i386

FreeBSD Ports ; http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=boinc-setiathome&stype=all
- FreeBSD, source via the FreeBSD Ports

Yuri Dario ; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seti-warp/message/1467
- OS/2 i386

Nekochan ; http://www.nekochan.net/nekoware/index.php?path=current/
- Irix

Debian ; http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client and http://packages.debian.org/boinc-manager
- Debian Linux for the most platforms

SETI@SummoneR.mikrocomp.hu ; http://www.mikrocomp.hu/seti/
- OpenBSD x86_64

Lars Bausch ; http://www.dotsch.de/boinc
- AIX on Power and PowerPC
- DragonFly BSD on i386
- FreeBSD Alpha, i386, IA64, SPARC64, x86_64/AMD64
- HP-UX IA64 (11i V.2, V.3) and PARISC (10.20, 11.0, 11i V.1..3)
- Irix 6.5.x on MIPS
- Linux Alpha, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC/Power/iSeries, Playstation 3, SPARC, zSeries
- NetBSD i386, MIPS EL, Power/PowerPC, x86_64
- OpenBSD Alpha, i386, SPARC64, x86_64/AMD64
- SCO OpenServer and UnixWare LKP Howto
- Solaris SPARC and x86
- TRU64

Tobias Neumann ; http://tobias-neumann.eu/boinc
- OpenBSD PPC/Power

Eric Myers / Pirates@home ; http://www.spy-hill.net/help/boinc/linux-rpm.html
- Distribution indipendend Linux i386 RPM packages

Rechenaugust ; http://www.rechenaugust.de/boinc
- Suse Linux 10.x, 11.x on i686 and x86_64

You may add the Repositories for OpenSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 from OpenSUSE Buildservice to this thread. There are new Coreclient/Manager .rpms for the 6.8.x development version:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/enzokiel/

Using the package search, I found a lot of packages, but I did not test them:
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=boinc

The standard OpenSUSE repos for 11.0 and 11.1 are of version 6.2.18, without CUDA.

I've released a BOINC Client for Linux on MIPS EL (Little Endian).

I feel like I'm missing something here, so any clarification and/or help would be greatly appreciated.

I have an old G3 tower (blue-green) that is running Debian 5 for PPC. Normal apt-get install for the boinc-client worked fine. It'll run benchmarks and attach to projects without problems. However, I get this message when it attempts to download a WU:

SETI@home 1 1268006015 Message from server: platform 'powerpc-linux-gnu' not found

I've installed Lars' BOINC client as well, and get the same error message. The only other Linux/PPC client I've seen in the list is Stefan's, and it requires a G4 processor.

Am I missing something?

You are right, for SETI (and a lot of other projects) a manual installation of the application is required.
A important step for the installation is to stop the BOINC client, install the project application, and start the BOINC client again with the option "--update_prefs <PROJECT_URL>" for example "boinc_client --update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu".
After the update a message, that the anonymous platform mechanism should occour and the project should download new WUs.

For SETI : The applications from Stefan and the Debian repositories are very outdated. I recommend to use them on my homepage.

BOINC is just the managing program, it doesn't do any science of itself. The project's science applications take care of that, but not each platform is available from the project.

That's the message that you get from Seti, the platform that you use has no science application at Seti that your BOINC can download. You will have to manually install the correct one, using the anonymous platform system.

On Lars' site, scroll down to Linux PowerPC/Power. The tar files will have readme files in them under /.opt/boinc/doc/ giving you an understanding on how to install them.

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Thank you both for your help! I found the correct document and followed the instructions, and have love.

See what happens when I RTFM? :)

For SETI : The applications from Stefan and the Debian repositories are very outdated. I recommend to use them on my homepage.

Excellent work Dotsch, especially the sustained effort over many years.

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Excellent work Dotsch, especially the sustained effort over many years.

Thank you very much!

Actualy I am working on the ports of the acutal 6.12.26 BOINC client. The most platforms are ported in the moment, the rest will follow soon.

Better port 6.12.28, Lars as 6.12.26 contains a big bug towards the account manager BAM!
That one's fixed in 6.12.28

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Better port 6.12.28, Lars as 6.12.26 contains a big bug towards the account manager BAM!
That one's fixed in 6.12.28

Regarding the CDATA problem - according to Rom's changeset [trac]changeset:23644[/trac] I'd even wait for 6.12.29...

Peter

Ah... I thought it was fixed in .28. Appears not to be. :-)

Thank you Jord and Pepo. I will wait with the new compiles and will also build the new BOINC clients if the bug is fixed.
Btw. what's excatly happening on the BAM bug?

Part of the code in the .26 client causes hosts to get a new hostID each time they contact BAM! Probably not something you want your clients to do. :)