MacOS Apple Silicon ARM support
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MacOS Apple Silicon ARM support
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Send message Joined: 7 Sep 24 Posts: 8 Credit: 48,829 RAC: 863 
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Currently the project only supports Intel Mac devices, not the newer Apple Silicon ARM chip devices. Please add support to these newer devices. |
 Send message Joined: 13 May 22 Posts: 13 Credit: 5,011,192 RAC: 306 
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Currently the project only supports Intel Mac devices, not the newer Apple Silicon ARM chip devices. Please add support to these newer devices. +1 |
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Send message Joined: 25 Nov 24 Posts: 1 Credit: 81,198 RAC: 12 
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Currently the project only supports Intel Mac devices, not the newer Apple Silicon ARM chip devices. Please add support to these newer devices. +2 |
 Send message Joined: 3 Jul 23 Posts: 1 Credit: 217,072 RAC: 0 
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+3 (I only recently realized the tasks were failing... mostly silently) |
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Send message Joined: 9 May 22 Posts: 273 Credit: 473,368 RAC: 254 |
Feature request is accepted. We currently build multi-arch binaries for MacOS but they are published only for Intel: https://github.com/loda-lang/loda-boinc/blob/main/project.xml We'll need to check if the boinc wrapper supports it. We would also split the current multi-arch binary into two separate ones. Silently failing tasks might be to another reason. You may need to check your logs. |
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Send message Joined: 9 May 22 Posts: 273 Credit: 473,368 RAC: 254 |
Please try the latest version 2412.08 |
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Send message Joined: 11 Oct 23 Posts: 3 Credit: 412,990 RAC: 4,668 
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I am getting arm tasks now (thank you!) but also still some intel tasks. Are there different queues of arm and intel tasks and this should be expected or is there some setting on the client side to request only arm tasks? |
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Send message Joined: 9 May 22 Posts: 273 Credit: 473,368 RAC: 254 |
I don't know. Maybe try the no_alt_platform client option? https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration |
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Send message Joined: 7 Sep 24 Posts: 8 Credit: 48,829 RAC: 863
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I am now getting WU's on my M4 Apple Silicon Mac mini, but only for the CPU. When will the project support the Apple Silicon GPU cores? |
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Send message Joined: 7 Sep 24 Posts: 8 Credit: 48,829 RAC: 863
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I am now getting WU's on my M4 Apple Silicon Mac mini, but only for the CPU. When will the project support the Apple Silicon GPU cores? I wrote in the post I've quoted, that yes, I am now getting work units on my M4 Apple Silicon Mac mini. But these are still running the Intel version, being translated to ARM using Apple's Rosetta 2 x86 to ARM translation layer, which hurts performance. I can see under "computing - applications" that the project already has support for both x86 and Apple Silicon Macs, but then why am I still getting x86 Intel WU's on my Apple Silicon Mac? The project should be able to figure out, that I have an Apple Silicon Mac, and then only issue me native ARM WU's instead of x86 ones. |
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