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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:53 am Post subject: New Manager Released - BOINC 6.10.36 |
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BOINC 6.10.36 released to public for Windows, Windows x64, and Mac OSX
| Quote: | 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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