Running BOINC - Rosetta on an iMac G5 OS 10.4.7.
Can anyone solve the problem of running the above Application. At present I only receive 1/3 to 1/2 credit for work done. They say it is because BOINC 5.4.9 is not optimized for PPC's so the work output is much less than theoretically possible based on the speed of the processor.
BOINC would appear to be a Universal application.
You can't run Rosetta on a PowerPC Mac. Rosetta is for running PowerPC apps on Intel chips.
If the software isn't optimized for the processor you have then it will run at a lower speed. Nothing can be done about it.
kind regards
mrtotes
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