BOINC

BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others.

After installing BOINC on your computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like. Use the idle time on your computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy.

Although BOINC supports 64-bit Intel project applications on OS X 10.5.0 and above, the only part of the BOINC client package built as a 64-bit executable is the screensaver coordinator for OS X 10.6.x and later. The BOINC libraries also include a 64-bit build so that they can be linked with 64-bit project applications.

MGR

• Improve validity checking in advanced prefs dialog
• Use lighter red for error fields
• In Advanced Preferences dialog highlight textedit field with illegal value by setting its background to red.
• In prefs dialog, buffer size limits are 10, not 100
• String tweaks
• Typo fix
• Show executable filename in task properties
• Make the average and total credit strings translatable and add comments for context.
• Tighten up the code to the last commit a bit.
• Fix the string construction of the 'work fetch deferral' stuff to be more localization friendly.
• Flag previously untranslatable strings as translatable.
• Reorder items in simple view prefs
• Show last RPC time in project properties
• Display total credit with thousands separators

Client

• Show more (but still not all) config options
• Don't use estimated fraction done until 1 minute has elapsed
• Client and API: pass list of app version files in init_data.xml
• Fix bug where elapsed time increased while suspended
• If app reports frac done outside [0,1] write message
• If a GPU exclusion refers to non-existent device num, ignore it
• Change cpu_sched_debug log messages to show job's GPU type
• If app reports fract done > 1, use asymptotic formula
• On Macs, fix failure to recognize CUDA devices when BOINC is launched automatically at login before CUDA has initialized at system boot.
• If app reports fraction done outside 0..1, truncate
• Avoid kernel panics at system boot when running as a service / daemon under Mac OS 10.10.4.
• Fix job scheduling bug that starves CPU instances
• Parse ARM CPU model

LIB

• Add function for formatting numbers w/ digit grouping
• Setbuf() only disables the CRT buffer and flush only works against the CRT buffers.

Installer/Uninstaller

• Fix a hang bug on some older versions of OS X (including 10.6.8.)
• Attempt to prevent a rare installer crash when system is set for a language other than English.
• Fix bug introduced in my commit 3e1428c which prevents installing on OS X older than OS 10.9 unless BOINC users and groups already exist (i.e., which causes a clean install to fail.)