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kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 60	Message 115070 - Posted: 26 Dec 2024, 16:12:31 UTC What BOINC projects have Apple Silicon GPU core support? ID: 115070 ·      Reply Quote
Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 901	Message 115072 - Posted: 26 Dec 2024, 17:43:09 UTC - in response to Message 115070.   Last modified: 26 Dec 2024, 17:44:37 UTC Only one I know of offhand, is Einstein. https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php ID: 115072 ·      Reply Quote
kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 60	Message 115280 - Posted: 25 Jan 2025, 0:09:53 UTC - in response to Message 115072.   Same, and that's due to a lack of FP64 in the Apple Silicon hardware, which prevents other BOINC projects, and Folding at home for that matter, to utilize the GPU cores, so Apple needs to add this to the chips, and yes, I already provided this feedback to them, in multiple places. Would've loved it for the upcoming M4 Ultra Mac Studio, but that won't be the case, sadly. ID: 115280 ·      Reply Quote
Ian&Steve C. Send message Joined: 24 Dec 19 Posts: 239	Message 115283 - Posted: 25 Jan 2025, 20:20:08 UTC - in response to Message 115072.   all the Primegrid GPU apps can use the Apple Silicon GPU also. ID: 115283 ·      Reply Quote
kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 60	Message 115574 - Posted: 9 Mar 2025, 10:00:37 UTC - in response to Message 115283.   Yeah, but someone told me on their forum, that this requires a much older version of BOINC for some reason, which is very difficult, at least for me, to install, and doesn’t make sense to me either: https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10735 ID: 115574 ·      Reply Quote
Ian&Steve C. Send message Joined: 24 Dec 19 Posts: 239	Message 115576 - Posted: 9 Mar 2025, 14:59:12 UTC - in response to Message 115574.   In reply to kasdashdfjsah's message of 9 Mar 2025: Yeah, but someone told me on their forum, that this requires a much older version of BOINC for some reason, which is very difficult, at least for me, to install, and doesn’t make sense to me either: https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10735 the version that works for PG apps (7.24.4) is from May 2024 the newest release (8.0.4) is from July 2024 it's not that much older really. 3 months different. ID: 115576 ·      Reply Quote

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