Rom Walton wrote:

Earlier today we pulled the last round of stable clients and rolled back to the stable clients that were available in early December.

A bug was introduced in 6.10.25 where the core client would continuously download new work from projects where the total GPU ram was enough to run the GPU app but not enough was available at run-time to actually run the application without crashing. This bug was fixed in 6.10.46.

As a result of having to pull the previous stable build we are moving forward with the 6.10.50 build as a potential release candidate build. I have adjust the test grouping to enable all of them now.

We really need to get a new stable version of the Mac client out the door, CUDA support for the Mac is not in the current stable Mac client.

Please report your results, good or bad, as quickly as possible.

----- Rom

For Windows: 6.10.43
For Linux: 6.10.44
For Macintosh: 6.10.43

Available from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

Some of the changes for this release are:

* New: Updated localization files

* New: Added accessibility support for advanced view (Mac)

* New: Added support for parsing username and password information from environment variables

* New: Added ability to ignore specific GPU cards through the use of ignore device through the use of a configuration file option

* New: Added ability to suspend BOINC's use of GPUs when certain applications are run through the use of a configuration file option

* New: Allow new screen saver options to be configured via the OS specific configuration screen

* New: Snooze GPU option off of the system tray menu

* New: Adjust GPU activity settings via the advanced view activity menu

* New: Added ability for a project to be specified as a "Backup Project" by setting its resource share to 0

* New: Suspend computation of BOINC applications if CPU usage from non-BOINC applications exceeds a volunteer defined value (Defaults to 25%)

* New: Support detecting SSE2, SSE3, and other forms of advanced instruction sets for older Windows machines (Windows)

* Fix: Numerous CPU/GPU scheduling fixes

* Fix: Numerous work-fetch fixes

* Fix: Mac Installer for non-admin installs

* Fix: Recover from crashes in Nvidia and ATI GPU functions (Linux, Mac)

* Fix: Reap child processes spawned from a wrapper on POSIX systems (Linux, Mac)

* Fix: If a project supports ATI or Nvidia projects, display their icons in the project list

* Fix: Show most commonly used preferences in use during startup via messages.

For comments/reactions, please use http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=5606

BOINC 6.10.51 released to public for Macintosh

Charlie Fenton wrote:

We have promoted BOINC 6.10.51 for Macintosh to recommended public release. Thanks to all of you who helped test it. We now once again have an official public build for the Mac which supports CUDA. This is important, since several projects have CUDA tasks available for the Mac.

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