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DESCRIPTION
BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others. After installing BOINC on your computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like. Use the idle time on your computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 6.10.17: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| BOINC User Reviews (19 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 1 2009 |
SPRINGHEELMAC Screensaver aspect is now much improved. If a particular project does not have a screensaver attached to it, instead of the usual, "Screensaver not supported with this project" you will get a breakdown of all the projects you are involved with and your stats. It fades in and out with each currently running project.
(Version 6.10.17) | |
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| Oct 30 2009 |
SPRINGHEELMAC 6.10.17 is NOT a beta release. I just checked 'boinc.berkeley.edu'.
(Version 6.10.17) | |
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| Oct 31 2009 |
W_H_K It was beta, they now upgraded it to release quality status.
(Version 6.10.17) | |
| Oct 20 2009 |
- I believe this error means that you (Boinc) can't login. But I can be wrong! - If you have such issues with the recent version of Boinc I would go back to version 6.6.36! A very good, stable and fast release for the Mac! http://boincdl3.ssl.berkeley.edu/mirror/boinc_6.6.36_macOSX_universal.zip Greets.
(Version 6.10.14) | |
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 | Sep 20 2009 |
WHITEROCK Beta seems to install but BOINC Manager gives error message: BOINC ownership or permissions are not set properly; please reinstall BOINC. (Error code -1037) uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't fix it.
(Version 6.10.6) | |
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| Sep 9 2009 |
WIZZARD1 This beta version has issues in the installer. It is supposed to add a hidden group called "boinc_master" to any userid that is part of the admin group. It does not add it but it does add the other hidden "boinc_project". You can not access the software unless it adds you. I have to back to 6.6 of the software. Been using this software for years but I guess the beta still has many bugs in it. Otherwise use the stable version until all the bugs are worked out.
(Version 6.10.4) | |
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 | Jun 15 2009 |
ETIENNE TOFFIN Here is how to remove any application dock icon, here explained with Boinc app
But you have to know that if you remove the app dock icon, you won't have any more access to the menubar for Boinc. I have not tested it with other apps, but it may produce the same effect
This is not problematic as long as you don't need to do anything that is not included in the Boing manager window (e.g. join projects)
To remove the Dock Icon (for any application): - Right click Boinc application and select "Show Package Contents" - Go in the Contents folder and open the "Info.plist" (TextEdit, Smultron
) - Move Boinc application to the Desktop (admin. password needed) and move it back to the Application folder --this operation is required as OS X keeps .plist files in cache
(Version 6.6.36) | |
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| Aug 30 2009 |
DANA SUTTON If you do it my way you get to keep the menubar icon :)
(Version 6.6.36) | |
| Sep 20 2009 |
DANA SUTTON Update installation worked fine for me. But I do hate it when developers don't tell you what you're getting in your update, they should ALWAYS have release notes. B. t. w., this is one of the very few apps I have that works dramatically better with multiprocessing, it crunches numbers for a different work unit on every processing core (I bet it would really wail on an 8-core!).
(Version 6.10.6) | |
| Jun 10 2009 |
DANA SUTTON One minor annoyance: BOINC has both a menu icon and a Dock icon, which is a redundant space-waster (I use Dock Dodger to conceal the Dock icon, but I shouldn't have to take the time to do this). Can't the developers fix this?
(Version 6.6.36) | |
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| Jun 10 2009 |
JIM57 BOINC is one of the only things which causes a Kernel Panic on my MacBook. Bad. I uninstalled it. A shame, because I like the idea of doing something good with my idle cycles.
(Version 6.6.36) | |
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 | May 25 2009 |
DANA SUTTON I have only one possible doubt about running this. I launch Activities Monitor, set it to Processor History, let BOINC run a couple of minutes, stop it, and I can see that it has had all four of my processing cores continually running balls-out I can't help wondering what kind of heat that creates. Is there any risk of shortening the life of my processors? One of my cores gets up to 175 degrees, which doesn't seem like a good idea. Anybody have any thoughts about this issue?
(Version 6.6.29) | |
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| May 25 2009 |
MISHA It shouldn't affect anything. Processors are designed to run at specific safe speeds within specific safe temperature ranges. A processor running full-out is still running within that range, and Apple designs its systems so that the cooling provided is adequate regardless of CPU load (fans speed up if they need to).
(Version 6.6.29) | |
| May 20 2009 |
LEPPE Why is it so hard to build a PPC 64 bit Client for Mac OS X Leopard? Can anyone give me a reasonable answer to that question?
(Version 6.6.29) | |
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