BOINC 5.8 for Windows & Mac

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:51 pm

Get it now its out

BOINC 5.8 has now ready for public release.

Some of the highlights for this release include:

Simple GUI (Complements of World Community Grid)
Basic CPU identification
CPU throttling
New CPU scheduler
New work fetch policy
Improved memory management
We have one outstanding issue with the Linux client at this time. As soon as we have resolved it we'll release it as well.

We would like to thank everyone for their hard work in making this a solid release.

----- Rom

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:30 pm

Thanks!

Glad you're keeping tabs!

Was quite happy with 5.8.3 but have downloaded and installed it anyway.

Anyone else wanting to do this can get it from here.

Don't forget to close down the manager (file/exit) before installing. Shared installation works fine for my setup.

DJH@GB-Ro · Post by **DJH@GB-Ro** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:57 pm

Typical I donwloaded 5.8.6 only yesterday! :oops:

Rockinfroggi · Post by **Rockinfroggi** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:50 pm

Just updated all my systems and thought I'd made a big mistake as it opened in the simple view which I've never seen before :oops: all's good now though and I'm back up and running.

BTW thanks for the link Mikee

Gary.

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:00 am

Rockinfroggi wrote:Just updated all my systems and thought I'd made a big mistake as it opened in the simple view which I've never seen before :oops: all's good now though and I'm back up and running.

BTW thanks for the link Mikee

Gary.

Yep so did I, thought what have I done? but got the "proper" view back.

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:09 am

UBT-mark3346 wrote:
Rockinfroggi wrote:Just updated all my systems and thought I'd made a big mistake as it opened in the simple view which I've never seen before :oops: all's good now though and I'm back up and running.

BTW thanks for the link Mikee

Gary.
Yep so did I, thought what have I done? but got the "proper" view back.

Yeah ditto, I thought OMG whats this LOL

Rockinfroggi · Post by **Rockinfroggi** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:26 am

Phew, I'm not the only :? one in the team then :sign3:

Gary.

UBT - JohnR · Post by **UBT - JohnR** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:25 pm

Had 5.8.3 and tried to download 10 days work from Einstein and only got about 5 days. Upgraded to 5.8.6 I think with the same result. When I went back to 5.4.11 I got the full 10 days.
Crunching off line now with no ISP as I try to change. LLU seems as though it will take a LOT longer than MAC codes.

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:59 pm

New version installed, up and running ok