I also must say congratulation. I am looking forward to this.

Agreed, way to step up to the plate and hit a Homer of the first swing

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

I also must say congratulation. I am looking forward to this.

You're part of the Alpha Testing team now, we're awaiting your Bench tests to see if it works and see if it's strongly similar on your hardware,

Claggy

If I can be of any help I will be. I can test across 10.6 to 10.8 on a reasonable variety of Mac hardware from iMacs, Mac Minis and Laptops.

I'm not a developer, but I am a Mac SysAdmin of 20 years standing, so should be able to give you the feedback you ask for.

Please, please let me know if I can be of any use at all.

~William

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~W

PM'd, CCing Arkayn.

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

I will be working on this ASAP. I have been out for a bit. Should be working the test WUs this afternoon when the NE blizzard forces me in this afternoon.

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I've got a a mac running 10.8 with a 9400M that's I'd be more than happy to exercise for y'all as well. I've been running it in Windows to utilize the GPU up until now...

Thanks,

Chris

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Anything new on the Mac GPU app?

Thanks,

Chris

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Some code changes were submitted and I have been running this via anonymous platform mechanism for a month or two. Will follow up to find out current process fr moving through Seti Beta and into prod.

Awesome!

Chris

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Whoa.....

I totally missed how Apple is now allowing just about ALL VIDEO CARDS to work in a MacPro. Since Lion broke a good number of my favorite Apps I haven't been paying attention to Lion or Mountain Lion. I was happy using ATY_Init in 10.6.8 with my 6850. I poked my head up and found that with 10.7.5 just about all cards work in my MacPro. I'm currently using my PC ATI HD 4670 in 10.7.5. I'm shocked...

A long time ago I was part of a forum that specialized in flashing PC cards to work in a PowerMac G4. Now all you have to do is plug the card into your Mac and it just works...Whoa.

Where are the Apps? Are they here yet?
StrangeDogs indeed....

You all might like to note this post by Charlie Fenton, Mac developer for BOINC:

BOINC currently does not support CUDA on dual-GPU MacBook Pros. This is because the way the CUDA drivers work, testing for the GPU's presence at BOINC startup causes the NVIDIA GPU to remain selected even when the computer is running on batteries, rapidly running down the battery.

So, MacBook Pro users don't rush to upgrade to v7.0.65

Full details at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8334&postid=48826

Check it out...

Fri Apr 26 16:38:03 2013 |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.65 for x86_64-apple-darwin
Fri Apr 26 16:38:03 2013 |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.26.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1c zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.9.1
Fri Apr 26 16:38:03 2013 |  | Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Fri Apr 26 16:38:03 2013 |  | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5462 @ 2.80GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
Fri Apr 26 16:38:03 2013 |  | Processor features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1
Fri Apr 26 16:38:03 2013 |  | OS: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (Darwin 11.4.2)
Fri Apr 26 16:38:03 2013 |  | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: Radeon HD 4670 (driver version 1.0, device version OpenCL 1.0, 1024MB, 1024MB available, 480 GFLOPS peak)
Fri Apr 26 16:38:03 2013 | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform...

10.7.4? But, but, I'm running 10.7.5....

I also have the stock Apple 2600XT installed in slot 1 and the 4670 in slot three. BOINC is only seeing the PC 4670, not the Apple card? I have the Apple NV8800GT sitting on the desk, I would install it if there were an App available. Heck, I would probably install the PC GTS250 along with the 8800 if there were an App....that worked with those cards.

BOINC is only seeing the PC 4670, not the Apple card?

The Radeon HD2600XT is not OpenCL capable, only CAL capable, and that may not be / no longer supported on the Mac?

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I went back and looked at the log from 10.6.8, it's still there. It looks like the 2600 wasn't listed back in Oct either. I don't know about before that. The only listing is for the 6850, later I removed the 2600 and installed the 8800. Oh well...

13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.31 for x86_64-apple-darwin
13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.26.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.9.1
13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5462 @ 2.80GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] Processor features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1
13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Darwin 10.8.0)
13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] OpenCL: ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon BB Prototype (driver version 1.0, device version OpenCL 1.0, 1024MB, 1024MB available)
13-Oct-2012 06:45:44 [---] No general preferences found - using defaults...

It's good the log was still there, I couldn't remember. The 2600 does show up in Windows though.


BTW, have you seen this?

Yehaa! EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 2GB
It just so happens, My Mac is Supported. I just need to win the Lottery....

The 2600 does show up in Windows though.

There it'll have drivers that make it CAL capable. It still isn't OpenCL capable, not even under Windows. So you can only run the Brook-hybrid app on it.

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Hmmm, the PC ATI 3650 doesn't work in Lion. So, Lion ATI PC card support stops somewhere between the 4670 and 3650. Oh well. I think the best place for the 3650 is in the Media Center PC anyway, so you can watch a video without fear of it causing BOINC Errors on a working card. I just need to wait until the 3650 itself doesn't cause BOINC Errors. Since removing the 3650 from the Windows 8 Host, the "AstroPulse v6 (anonymous platform, ATI GPU)" tasks have been updating semi-correctly. Strange how having the 3650 installed causes the Application details page for that Host to reset and stop updating. I still haven't decided how the "Consecutive valid tasks" number can be higher than the "Number of tasks completed" though.

hi jason

reading your coloum, and running two never iMac on the seti project, where can i find the patch to make the system use the gnu.

seti finds gpu but does not make any calculations.

marinus

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hi jason

reading your coloum, and running two never iMac on the seti project, where can i find the patch to make the system use the gnu.

seti finds gpu but does not make any calculations.

marinus

Hi Marinus,
Best option might be to sign up over at Arkayn's site ( http://www.arkayn.us/forum/index.php?action=forum ) and get involved there, where there are some Alpha builds. I'm not sure for which OSX versions there are supporting builds for, but definitely there has been something functional. At least there they'd be able to aid you in determining if a suitable build exists for your machine(s) & how to setup, or that more work is needed etc.

For OpenCL/ATi they could probably help you there, though I am unsure of the status/progress. For nVidia-Cuda type in development, I applied the initial patches to Berkeley's source, which turned out to be relatively minor. Probably more impetus will be needed to see all OSX variants with Cuda or OpenCL capability supported, so more hands on deck there at all skill levels will be appreciated.

Jason

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

Any more news on the Mac CUDA App? The AstroPulse ATI App seems to work, and the AstroPulse nVidia App will be fixed soon. Still No CUDA App?

Any more news on the Mac CUDA App? The AstroPulse ATI App seems to work, and the AstroPulse nVidia App will be fixed soon. Still No CUDA App?

Several of us have reported getting the latest code-base working on Linux in this thread. There's no reason anyone with an appropriate Mac couldn't download the Nvidia SDK etc., and try it for him/herself. Unix is Unix, and the Macs now use Intel CPUs. I don't have access to a Mac (donations of a dual-processor Mac Pro welcome...) so I can't try it myself.

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