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Message 13 - Posted: 28 Sep 2026, 18:16:20 UTC

Hi, i have M4 and M1 macos 27 laptops

both of them crunch bitboinc but the task is displayed as if it is a normal CPU task. It does not say (using X.X GPU) in the name, which I can see if i crunch Einstein@home on mac

I tried to run 7 tasks in parallel and my system hangs

i am not boinc developer but as far as i know you somehow need to mark work units so that computers will properly know that they run on GPU, and then will limit number of in-progress tasks according to number of GPUs or GPU cores available ...
I crunch for Ukraine

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Message 14 - Posted: 28 Sep 2026, 18:54:15 UTC - in response to Message 13.  

The problem has been resolved. Thanks for reporting it.
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