BOINC on a MACBOOK

[BPrincipe]

I am trying to leverage BOINC on my new Apple MacBook?. I learned about CUDA from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and I have successfully loaded CUDA. I suggest that I have successfully loaded CUDA, because I am able to run the deviceQuery demo and all of the other demos in the /Developer/CUDA/bin/darwin/release directory.

My issue appears to be with the BOINC application. When it starts up I check the Message tab and see the following:

Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Starting BOINC client version 6.6.20 for x86_64-apple-darwin Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.6.0 Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Data directory: /Library/Application? Support/BOINC Data Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Processor: 2 GenuineIntel? Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Processor features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 OS: Darwin: 9.6.2 Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 92.13 GB virtual Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Disk: 148.73 GB total, 91.89 GB free Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Local time is UTC -4 hours Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Can't load library libcudart Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 No coprocessors Sat Apr 18 12:19:47 2009 Not using a proxy I am under the impression that since I see "Can't load library libcudart", that BOINC is not running CUDA.

I would appreciate any assistance or suggestions.

I should also note that I am new to the MACBOOK so I am very inexperienced with the MACOS.

Thx!

[Nicolas]

BOINC doesn't yet support CUDA on Mac.

Trac is to report bugs, it's not the place to ask for "assistance or suggestions". Use the forum for that.

[Ageless]

Replying to Nicolas:

BOINC doesn't yet support CUDA on Mac.

Ah, but it does. CUDA support is built into BOINC no matter what platform. It's just that the driver that enables CUDA on the Mac isn't available yet. If it ever comes.

[BPrincipe]

I apologize for the post. I did not know. I appreciate the feedback though.

[Nicolas]

Replying to Ageless:

Ah, but it does. CUDA support is built into BOINC no matter what platform. It's just that the driver that enables CUDA on the Mac isn't available yet. If it ever comes.

Which, from a practical standpoint, means CUDA on BOINC on Mac doesn't work. It doesn't matter who's fault it is :)

[Ageless]

Yes, but there's a big difference between not being supported and not working, for when a CUDA driver becomes available for the Mac, it'll work immediately with all BOINC versions since 6.6.0 without Charlie needing to quickly add the needed support.