From the land of BOINC...

Earlier today we pulled the last round of stable clients and rolled back to the stable clients that were available in early December.

A bug was introduced in 6.10.25 where the core client would continuously download new work from projects where the total GPU ram was enough to run the GPU app but not enough was available at run-time to actually run the application without crashing. This bug was fixed in 6.10.46.

As a result of having to pull the previous stable build we are moving forward with the 6.10.50 build as a potential release candidate build. I have adjust the test grouping to enable all of them now.

We really need to get a new stable version of the Mac client out the door, CUDA support for the Mac is not in the current stable Mac client.

Please report your results, good or bad, as quickly as possible.

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I have already started another message thread here with whats in 6.10.50 for those that are interested.

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Unless you are effected by the GPU RAM issue there is no real need to downgrade. If you have a card that has less than 512Mb you may want to consider either downgrading or maybe trying the latest development version.

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Unless you are effected by the GPU RAM issue there is no real need to downgrade. If you have a card that has less than 512Mb you may want to consider either downgrading or maybe trying the latest development version.

Unless you are into pain you might want to consider a slight modification ...6.10.45 does not seem to be affected by that issue and is not affected by issues introduced in .46 ... I have not yet tried .50 but I have seen some reports of issues with it also ... I know .46 to .48 are bent from personal experience ...

I get the impression that 6.10.43 (and close variants) solved several GPU issues, but have been pulled because of one issue, that only effects 256MB cards!
A warning might have sufficed, until there was a fix.
Rolling back is like opening up old wounds because you stubbed your toe.

I get the impression that 6.10.43 (and close variants) solved several GPU issues, but have been pulled because of one issue, that only effects 256MB cards!
A warning might have sufficed, until there was a fix.
Rolling back is like opening up old wounds because you stubbed your toe.

Unfortunately, UCB does not solicit feedback or ask for input on questions like these ... or if they do it is to some small inner circle ... and rash choices like this seem to be the norm rather than the exception.

Yeah, to make all versions of Boinc between 6.10.18 and 6.10.50 unavailable, is unhelpful to the cruncher and perhaps GPUGrid.
6.10.18 had more problems than 6.10.43.
How many of those users with 6.10.43 will even know to roll back to 6.10.18? Next to none probably.
So wrong decission made, problem not solved; just passed on to everyone else!

You could probably count on one hand the number of cards it effected here. These crunchers could have been contacted directly if need be! I bet that did not happen either. Mind you, the 256MB cards it did effect probably contribute much less than 0.1% of the work done here. The problems encountered by having to use 6.10.18 could outweigh this small percentage.

One lump or two?

There is now a 6.10.53 Beta.

You can still download BOINC 6.10.43 64bit

and BOINC 6.10.43 32bit for Windows here if you wish.

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You can still download BOINC 6.10.43 64bit

and BOINC 6.10.43 32bit for Windows here if you wish.

There are no fixes yet to the issues that drove them to remove the builds... to put it another way, .53 solves none of the issues that supposedly made .43 bad ... at least not yet... this was merely a build to fix issues with the download / upload limiter code that they added post .45 ...

This is why, when you settle on a version, keep a copy of the installer so that if you do want to reinstall a version you can use your own copy ... I keep upwards of 20 copies "just in case" ... heck, I just recently (in the last month or so) dropped 6.5.0 ... :)

Yeah, to make all versions of Boinc between 6.10.18 and 6.10.50 unavailable, is unhelpful to the cruncher and perhaps GPUGrid.
6.10.18 had more problems than 6.10.43.
How many of those users with 6.10.43 will even know to roll back to 6.10.18? Next to none probably.
So wrong decission made, problem not solved; just passed on to everyone else!

You could probably count on one hand the number of cards it effected here. These crunchers could have been contacted directly if need be! I bet that did not happen either. Mind you, the 256MB cards it did effect probably contribute much less than 0.1% of the work done here. The problems encountered by having to use 6.10.18 could outweigh this small percentage.

One lump or two?

I've got an 8800GT 256MB ;-) but now I'm forced to use Windows for that. I'd rather be using Linux, I'm just too cheap to spend money for Windows on a crunchbox, so 30 day trials for me until Linux catches up.

The problem now is that I use Mint Linux, & the Ubuntu versions are down to 6.4.5 so I have to get it from http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/9.10/?q=boinc or http://linuxappfinder.com/package/boinc-client they're both nice sites though & via apturl it's as easy as using Windows to install if what you're looking for isn't available in Synaptic.

I use BOINC 6.10.36 & if I wasn't such a linux N00B I'd be able to figure out how to get BOINC 6.10.18 but there's a dependency that I can't find anywhere that prevents me from using that version. Anyone know what to do? I think it's called libssl or rather the correct version of libssl for use with BOINC 6.10.18

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