Collatz on Ubuntu 12.10 (using 12.10 Catalyst/AMD APP SDK 2.8)?

[Dirk Broer]

Though POEm and WCG (both OpenCL applications) go along just fine under 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10, Collatz just will refuse any work.
An application found under their own -Collatz's- webpage's seems to take certain uninstalled libraries and a Lib64 map under Usr for granted that just are not there:

libaticalcl.so => /usr/lib64/libaticalcl.so (0x00002b373b4e3000)
libbrook64.so => /usr/lib64/libbrook64.so (0x00002b373b6d1000)
libbrook_cal64.so => /usr/lib64/libbrook_cal64.so (0x00002b373b914000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002b373bb33000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b373be3b000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002b373c08e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b373c29d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b373c5e2000)
libaticalrt.so => /usr/lib64/libaticalrt.so (0x00002b373c7fd000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00002b373c91e000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b373cb27000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00002b373cd2b000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00002b373cf3d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b373b4b4000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x00002b373d273000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0x00002b373d477000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1 (0x00002b373d679000

[Brucifer]

Looks like you are missing a compatibility library. Been ages since I messed with ubuntu. Maybe AMDave will read this, or Vaughan and pitch in with their sage advice???? Have you posted on the Collatz community message board about it???

[Dirk Broer]

Hi Brucifer,

As soon as I get this problem licked I'll post it on each and every forum! Seems like half the world has problems with BOINC/GPU projects plus Ubuntu 12.10 (The other half uses either an other distro, Windows, or has gone bonkers by now)
But I have had WCG, POEM and Moo! GPU WUs running on the box, so Collatz will have no chance to escape. I will now try the new app_config.xml approach (new since BOINC 7.0.42 or so, and I am using 7.0.44 on Dave's advice), see what it brings. Moo! is running fine using such a file.

[AMDave]

Oh. yup. haha.

download the suitable optimized app here: http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/power_apps.php
unzip it somwhere
stop boinc
copy the app_info.xml
AND the client-app binary (eg collatz_2.01_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__ati14)
AND the libbrook*.so files
into the project folder ~/BOINC/projects/boinc.thesonntags.com
restart boinc

* extra - the first time I did this I swear that BOINC removed one of the files - app_info or the client binary I think, so go back and check it is still there, if not then repeat

[Dirk Broer]

When the binary was removed by BOINC for the fourth or fifth time with me, I gave up this approach. I had placed the libbrook*.so files in the usr/lib map though, as per the read.me file (which actually states that you have to place them in the usr/lib64 map, but that no longer exists in newer Ubuntu versions). When Moo! is done running four WUs at a time -which it doesn't seem to like- I will return once more to Collatz.