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Ncard00
Cruncher Joined: Mar 25, 2024 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline |
Does WCG have full native Apple Silicon ARM support, issuing WU’s for both the CPU and GPU cores, and if not, when will it get support for this?
----------------------------------------Update: Getting 10 work units at the same time on my M4 Mac mini, which amounts to 100% CPU utilization, but still not getting any WU's for the 10 Apple Silicon GPU cores, Also, the CPU tasks are being run through the Rosetta 2 translation layer, so better than nothing, but still not the same performance as native Apple Silicon ARM support. And, my M4 Mac mini doesn't show up under "my devices", only my Windows 10 PC does, why? [Edit 1 times, last edit by Ncard00 at Jan 11, 2025 5:16:40 PM] |
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brilor
Cruncher Joined: Feb 11, 2011 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline |
Seeing the same here on my M2 Mac mini. WCG runs as an "Intel" process meaning it has to be translated ( via Rosetta2 ) from Intel to ARM64 instructions. Apple's ARM64 Macs have been available since November 2020, so most mac WCG users will be running slower computations. It's surprising WCG hasn't updated ( to Universal so it can run native on either ARM64 or the older Intel ) in over 4 years. Is there any discussion or work to deliver this or, even better, an ETA? Is the source public, maybe that would help speed the transition to current Mac ARM64 support.
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ericinboston
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jan 12, 2010 Post Count: 250 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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...my M4 Mac mini doesn't show up under "my devices", only my Windows 10 PC does, why? Did this get fixed? I recall a year or so ago there were problems with machines doing work but NOT showing up in Devices. There was a simple fix for it and a very looooong thread on this forum about people complaining of the problem. I believe the fix was you had to post a reply to the forum thread containing some info from the BOINC log and a WCG admin here would manually add your machine to the Devices list. Again, that was a year or so ago but maybe the problem has returned. I had to do this for several Macs (not sure if I needed to do for my Wintels). EDIT: This is the thread you should ask for help .  [Edit 1 times, last edit by ericinboston at Jan 24, 2025 2:04:21 PM] |
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