Initial ODROID-U2 BOINC thoughts...

So I'm starting to build up the ODROID-U2 page. I managed to find a pre-built image of Debian "wheezy" over at http://odroid.us. This made life easier as it means I can use the same project binaries I built on the Raspberry Pi (Raspbian wheezy).

To compare the difference in performance between the Raspberry Pi and the ODROID-U2 running BOINC tasks, here's some stats:

1) Time difference between theSkyNet POGS fit task on single CPU:

Raspberry Pi @ 950 MHz ~ 120 minutes.

05:40:13 (17261): wrapper: running fit_sed (1 filters.dat observations.dat)

07:51:11 (17261): wrapper: running fit_sed (2 filters.dat observations.dat)

ODROID-U2 @ 1.7GHz ~ 30 minutes.

19:46:09 (6657): wrapper: running fit_sed (1 filters.dat observations.dat)

20:17:02 (6657): wrapper: running fit_sed (2 filters.dat observations.dat)

2) BOINC benchmark tests:

Raspberry Pi @ 950 MHz

18-Jan-2013 13:15:20 [---]    325 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU

18-Jan-2013 13:15:20 [---]    1301 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

ODROID-U2 @ 1.7GHz

21-Jan-2013 19:39:46 [---]    969 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU

21-Jan-2013 19:39:46 [---]    3977 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU