Is there a boinc version (I thought it was 7.16.14) that runs on M1 apple hardware without Rosetta? It appears that when I updated to Monterey boinc got moved to 7.16.21. And I think that may be when / why my M1 mac-mini running einstein@home took such a performance hit.
I keep hearing that some mac apps like Music require rosetta. Can I get the straight scoop from someone please.
Has anyone looked into reducing the memory usage for these tasks? I can't run E@H on my M1 Mac b/c of the way it impacts memory, which affects swap usage, which affects SSD usage, and the SSD's on M1 Macs are integrated into the chip - not replaceable.
Is there a boinc version (I thought it was 7.16.14) that runs on M1 apple hardware without Rosetta? It appears that when I updated to Monterey boinc got moved to 7.16.21. And I think that may be when / why my M1 mac-mini running einstein@home took such a performance hit.
I keep hearing that some mac apps like Music require rosetta. Can I get the straight scoop from someone please.
Stephen
I did notice when my M1 MBA upgraded from Big Sur to Monterey, WUs slowed from 2.75hrs to a little over 3 hrs, so I downgraded to BS... Last week I upgraded to Ventura and performance's unaffected... Still seeing avg 2.75hrs/WU... All instances of 7.16.21... I believe it's a Monterey problem...
1. I think even the BOINC Client doesn't support either Metal or the GPU on Apple Silicon yet.
2. Metal is a completely different framework that OpenCL, it's Apple's own, closed thing. The point is that currently less that 5% on E@H are Apple machines, for us that population is simply not worth the effort for porting and maintaining yet another platform.
No native app for that
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No native app for that hardware yet on BRP Search
https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php
Is there a boinc version (I
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Is there a boinc version (I thought it was 7.16.14) that runs on M1 apple hardware without Rosetta? It appears that when I updated to Monterey boinc got moved to 7.16.21. And I think that may be when / why my M1 mac-mini running einstein@home took such a performance hit.
I keep hearing that some mac apps like Music require rosetta. Can I get the straight scoop from someone please.
Stephen
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Has anyone looked into
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Has anyone looked into reducing the memory usage for these tasks? I can't run E@H on my M1 Mac b/c of the way it impacts memory, which affects swap usage, which affects SSD usage, and the SSD's on M1 Macs are integrated into the chip - not replaceable.
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I did notice when my M1 MBA upgraded from Big Sur to Monterey, WUs slowed from 2.75hrs to a little over 3 hrs, so I downgraded to BS... Last week I upgraded to Ventura and performance's unaffected... Still seeing avg 2.75hrs/WU... All instances of 7.16.21... I believe it's a Monterey problem...
i just noticed that my m1 mac
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i just noticed that my m1 mac runs the arm-native app SIGNIFICANTLY quicker than x86_64 binaries! I wonder if arecibo large will be ported to m1 too?
( as it chugs a lot slower than on a linux system, I'm assuming rosetta 2 is responsible)
however requesting gpu tasks does nothing - is it because there are no M1 gpu drivers available ?
the M1 GPU only supports
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the M1 GPU only supports Metal and doesn't support OpenCL. there are no apps coded in Metal for any BOINC project
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interesting to know, thanks
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interesting to know, thanks for the info IAN&STEVE C. !
I'm guessing it would probably be too coding-intensive to port openCL to Metal... ?
1. I think even the BOINC
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1. I think even the BOINC Client doesn't support either Metal or the GPU on Apple Silicon yet.
2. Metal is a completely different framework that OpenCL, it's Apple's own, closed thing. The point is that currently less that 5% on E@H are Apple machines, for us that population is simply not worth the effort for porting and maintaining yet another platform.
BM
got it, thanks for the
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got it, thanks for the explanation Bernd
Are there any plans to port Arecibo app to native ARM code for Apple M1 cpus?
That indeed shouldn't be too
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That indeed shouldn't be too hard. I'll take a look when I have a hand free.
BM