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Message 2809 - Posted: 5 Oct 2008, 16:25:40 UTC - in response to Message 2708.  
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New version 6.3.13 is released:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.3.13_windows_x86_64.exe
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.3.13_windows_intelx86.exe

Anyone know what specific changes were made to this release?

Yes, here are some.

6.3.12
- client: attempt to fix CPU sched bug in the presence of GPUs
(if there was an idle GPU, it would run unboundedly many CPU jobs)
- client/manager: show # CPUs and coprocessors in task display

6.3.13
- client: don't lower priority of apps that use >0 coprocessors and <1 CPU.
Otherwise they don't run efficiently.

-prepare for "don't run while playing game" feature

-client: add "exclusive app" feature. If you put
<exclusive_app>foo.exe</exclusive_app>
in your cc_config.xml, BOINC will suspend computing
whenever foo.exe is running (e.g., a game).

I suppose this would be useful when gaming, although it looks like the option suspends all boinc computing, not just the GPU. I have not tested as 6.3.13 gave me other problems and I regressed back to 6.3.10.

- scheduler: add <no_vista_sandbox> option.
If set, don't send work to sandboxed Vista clients
(e.g., because of CUDA issue)

There were many other but these are the most relevant.

The next release will have
- client: fix bugs in coprocessor scheduling;
add new <coproc_debug> log flag
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Message 2811 - Posted: 5 Oct 2008, 18:06:23 UTC - in response to Message 2809.  



has been set few days ago already for the server, so that people that install BOINC on Windows Vista will receive a reinstall message if they have not selected un-protected mode.

Anyone to test this?

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