BOINC 8.2.5 : Issues with macOS on Apple Silicon Mac

[La Poste]

Hi Team,

I have installer BOINC 8.2.5 on a MacBook Pro M3 (Apple Silicon) running mac0S 15.5

Prior to install BOINC, I have installed Podman for macos-arm64_v5.5.2

In log file, BM indicate that Docker is detected (see below):

Mar 22 jul 19:52:22 2025 |  | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults

Mar 22 jul 19:52:23 2025 |  | Starting BOINC client version 8.2.5 for arm64-apple-darwin

Mar 22 jul 19:52:23 2025 |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task

Mar 22 jul 19:52:23 2025 |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.79.1 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.12 c-ares/1.17.2

Mar 22 jul 19:52:23 2025 |  | Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data

Mar 22 jul 19:52:24 2025 |  | OpenCL: Apple GPU 0: Apple M3 Pro (driver version 1.2 1.0, device version OpenCL 1.2, 27.00GB, 27.00GB available, 144 GFLOPS peak) 

Mar 22 jul 19:52:25 2025 |  | Computer name: GPV-Book.lan

Mar 22 jul 19:52:25 2025 |  | Processor: 12 Apple Apple M3 Pro

Mar 22 jul 19:52:25 2025 |  | Processor features: amx_version_0 arm64 armv8_1_atomics armv8_2_fhm armv8_2_sha3 armv8_2_sha512 armv8_crc32 floatingpoint neon neon_fp16 neon_hpfp ucnormal_mem 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 pbe pni pclmulqdq dtse64 mon dscpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 tpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 aes seglim64

Mar 22 jul 19:52:25 2025 |  | OS: Mac OS X 15.5 (Darwin 24.5.0)

Mar 22 jul 19:52:25 2025 |  | Memory: 36.00 GB physical, 430.72 GB virtual

Mar 22 jul 19:52:25 2025 |  | Disk: 926.32 GB total, 430.72 GB free

Mar 22 jul 19:52:25 2025 |  | Local time is UTC +2 hours

Mar 22 jul 19:52:25 2025 |  | Docker: version 5.5.2 (podman)

But, LHC@Home notifies me that VirtualBox is not installed (see below):

LHC@home: Notice from server

VirtualBox is not installed

Mardi 22 juillet 2025 à 19:59:28

Another issue is that some projects doesn’t detect the GPU (see below):

DENIS@home:

ID de l'ordinateur	Nom	Modèle	Localisation	Crédit moyen	Crédit total	BOINC version	CPU	GPU	Système d'exploitation	Dernier contact
ID: 242226 Détails | Tâches	GPV-Book.lan	Mac15,7		26.78	409,181	8.2.5	Apple Apple M3 Pro (12 processeurs)	---	Darwin 24.5.0	22 Jul 2025, 17:59:20 UTC

Einstein@home:

ID DE L'ORDINATEUR	NOM	LOCALISATION	CRÉDIT MOYEN	CRÉDIT TOTAL	VERSION DE BOINC	PROCESSEUR	GPU	SYSTÈME D'EXPLOITATION	DERNIER CONTACT
ID: 13233221 Details | Tasks	GPV-Book.lan		0.00		8.2.5	Apple Apple M3 Pro (12 processors)	---	Darwin 24.5.0	22 Jul 2025 17:55:03 UTC

LHC@home:

ID de l'ordinateur	Nom	Modèle	Localisation	Crédit moyen	Crédit total	BOINC version	CPU	GPU	Système d'exploitation	Dernier contact
ID: 10873584 Détails | Tâches	GPV-Book.lan	Mac15,7		0.00	0	8.2.5	Apple Apple M3 Pro (12 processeurs)	---	Darwin 24.5.0	22 Jul 2025, 17:59:27 UTC

Conversely, BOINC Central seems detecting two GPUs:

ID de l'ordinateur	Nom	Modèle	Localisation	Crédit moyen	Crédit total	BOINC version	CPU	GPU	Système d'exploitation	Dernier contact
ID: 32759 Détails | Tâches	GPV-Book.lan	Mac15,7		0.00	0	8.2.5	Apple Apple M3 Pro (12 cores)	apple_gpu Apple M3 Pro (27648MB) driver: 0.03 OpenCL: 1.2 OpenCL GPU apple_gpu (27648MB) driver: 1.02	Darwin 24.5.0	22 Jul 2025, 17:53:05 UTC

I’m waiting for your answer, I can perform further tests.

Georges

[David P. Anderson]

If the client detects VirtualBox, it says so in the startup messages.

On Unix systems (including MacOS) the client looks for

    "/usr/bin/VBoxManage"
    "/usr/local/bin/VBoxManage"

Is either of these present on your system?

-- David

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[David P. Anderson]

Projects running old BOINC web code won't show Apple GPUs.

BOINC Central runs the current web code.

It looks like there's a problem with reporting the apple gpu twice.

-- David

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM 'La Poste' via boinc_alpha <boinc...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote: