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Those using the <type> tag for GPU's in their BOINC configs, plz note the below, which arrived *after* seeing a documentation change on a watched wiki [without explanation].

16-2-2013 22:06
The problem (as I was able to find easily,
thanks to your emulator scenario) was that your cc_config.xml had
<type>ati</type>
but it needs to be
<type>ATI</type>

Valid types are:
ATI (for AMD/ATI)
NVIDIA (for NVIDIA)
intel_gpu (for Intel)

The documentation was wrong; it said "ati" and "nvidia".
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration#Options
I fixed it, but as far as I can tell it was always wrong.
I don't know how this error could have existed for so long.

I checked in code to the client so that if your cc_config.xml
has a <exclude_gpu> with an invalid <url>, <type>, or <app>,
you'll get a notice telling you about,
instead of it being silently ignored.

-- David

Can't remember having seen reports of config problems or things not working as expected, but just in case there is a head-scratcher with the "silently ignored" state ;D. The next dev. version of BOINC, which would be 7.0.53 is going to have the fix [but you don't need it to fix the issue, just adapt the tag to upper case for ATI/NVIDIA.