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New Manager Released - BOINC 6.10.36

 
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:53 am    Post subject: New Manager Released - BOINC 6.10.36 Reply with quote

BOINC 6.10.36 released to public for Windows, Windows x64, and Mac OSX

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Some of the changes for this release are:

* New: Updated localization files

* New: Added accessibility support for advanced view (Mac)

* New: Added support for parsing username and password information
from environment variables

* New: Added ability to ignore specific GPU cards through the use of
ignore device through the use of a configuration file option

* New: Added ability to suspend BOINC's use of GPUs when certain
applications are run through the use of a configuration file option

* New: Allow new screen saver options to be configured via the OS
specific configuration screen

* New: Snooze GPU option off of the system tray menu

* New: Adjust GPU activity settings via the advanced view activity
menu

* New: Added ability for a project to be specified as a "Backup
Project" by setting its resource share to 0

* New: Suspend computation of BOINC applications if CPU usage from
non-BOINC applications exceeds a volunteer defined value (Defaults to
25%)

* New: Support detecting SSE2, SSE3, and other forms of advanced
instruction sets for older Windows machines (Windows)

* Fix: Numerous CPU/GPU scheduling fixes

* Fix: Numerous work-fetch fixes

* Fix: Mac Installer for non-admin installs

* Fix: Recover from crashes in Nvidia and ATI GPU functions (Linux,
Mac)

* Fix: Reap child processes spawned from a wrapper on POSIX systems
(Linix, Mac)

* Fix: If a project supports ATI or Nvidia projects, display their
icons in the project list

* Fix: Show most commonly used preferences in use during startup via
messages.

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