Boinc 6.10.56

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is een platform voor distributed computing en is voor Linux, Mac OS X, Unix en Windows beschikbaar. Van dit platform maakt een aantal projecten gebruik, zoals SETI@home, Rosetta@home, Leiden Classical en Hydrogen@Home. Voor meer informatie over het hoe en wat van Boinc verwijzen we jullie naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben enkele dagen geleden een nieuwe versie voor de verschillende platformen uitgebracht met 6.10.56 als het versienummer. De lijst met veranderingen sinds de vorige vermelding in de Meuktracker ziet er als volgt uit:

Version 6.10.56:

• 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)
• New: Support for custom installers to automatically cause new accounts to join a specific team when atteching to a project for the first time (Windows)
• New: Support for Nvidia Fermi cards
• New: Added support for 'Transfer at most X Megabytes every N days' preference
• Fix: Name resolution issues (Mac)
• Fix: Activity Menu display issues (Linux)
• Fix: Reduce CPU load in dealing with communications between manager and core client (Windows)
• Fix: Properly display project descriptions on Windows XP machines in the attach to project wizard
• 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 (Linux, 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.

Version 6.10.18:

• Updated localization files
• Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8l (Fixes a new man in the middle potential exploit due to encryption renegotiation)