Apple M-series CPU/GPU Applications

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Jon Fox Send message Joined: 19 Aug 18 Posts: 1 Credit: 49,268,447 RAC: 0	Message 1745 - Posted: 25 Dec 2023, 15:30:25 UTC Good Morning, Are there any plans for application support of the Apple ARM hardware? Thanks, Jon Fox ID: 1745 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

sjmielh Send message Joined: 10 Dec 22 Posts: 2 Credit: 4,279,457 RAC: 1,795	Message 1746 - Posted: 27 Dec 2023, 15:11:47 UTC - in response to Message 1745. Yes that would be great! Sam ID: 1746 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 24 Credit: 75,984,292 RAC: 324	Message 1968 - Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 15:36:27 UTC - in response to Message 1746. Yes that would be great! Sam Any update as of november 2024? Only Intel Macs are currently supported. ID: 1968 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Sergei Chernykh Project administrator Project developer Send message Joined: 5 Jan 17 Posts: 562 Credit: 72,451,573 RAC: 0	Message 1970 - Posted: 15 Nov 2024, 15:29:56 UTC - in response to Message 1968. Technically it's possible to build the binaries for the arm64-apple-macos-11 compiler target. But first I need to figure out how to add arm64 macOS platform to the project because it didn't even exist when this project started. ID: 1970 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 24 Credit: 75,984,292 RAC: 324	Message 1973 - Posted: 24 Nov 2024, 13:28:39 UTC - in response to Message 1970. Ok, thanks for the response. Hoping for Apple Silicon support at some point in the future, cause the new M4 Macs are selling like crazy right now, with many people finally ditching Windows... ID: 1973 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 24 Credit: 75,984,292 RAC: 324	Message 2003 - Posted: 20 Jan 2025, 23:12:12 UTC - in response to Message 1973. Ok, thanks for the response. Hoping for Apple Silicon support at some point in the future, cause the new M4 Macs are selling like crazy right now, with many people finally ditching Windows... And the new M4 Ultra Mac Studio, and maybe even an M4 Extreme Mac Pro, are coming this year, with the Ultra, or both new chips, having much better scaling than the M2 Ultra, meaning a lot of extra compute power, along with the new Nvidia 50-series GPU's, so having Apple SIlicon support ready for the M4 Ultra would be so amazing :) ID: 2003 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 24 Credit: 75,984,292 RAC: 324	Message 2030 - Posted: 22 Feb 2025, 15:24:44 UTC - in response to Message 1970. Update: Just tried this project anyway on my M4 Mac mini, and I immediately got 1 CPU task, since this project uses all the CPU cores for 1 task These were running under Rosetta 2 though, so not native, but still, it works, which means you can add MacOS ARM to the Applications page :) ID: 2030 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Tigers_Dave Send message Joined: 26 Oct 22 Posts: 61 Credit: 18,856,115,581 RAC: 27,004,466	Message 2034 - Posted: 2 Mar 2025, 6:03:19 UTC - in response to Message 2003. Ok, thanks for the response. Hoping for Apple Silicon support at some point in the future, cause the new M4 Macs are selling like crazy right now, with many people finally ditching Windows... And the new M4 Ultra Mac Studio, and maybe even an M4 Extreme Mac Pro, are coming this year, with the Ultra, or both new chips, having much better scaling than the M2 Ultra, meaning a lot of extra compute power, along with the new Nvidia 50-series GPU's, so having Apple SIlicon support ready for the M4 Ultra would be so amazing :) The M4 Ultra Mac Studio will support the NVIDIA 50-series GPUs?!?!?!? Can you please post a link to that report? TIA. ID: 2034 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 24 Credit: 75,984,292 RAC: 324	Message 2044 - Posted: 9 Mar 2025, 10:48:07 UTC - in response to Message 2034. No, that’s not what I have. I meant that all the extra compute power from the new 50 series GPU’s and new Mac Studio devices seperately, but combined with the existing project compute power, will be great, cause both and so powerful individually, the Mac Studio has Apple Silicon GPU cores, not a discrete GPU. ID: 2044 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 24 Credit: 75,984,292 RAC: 324	Message 2050 - Posted: 3 Apr 2025, 18:49:20 UTC - in response to Message 1970. Is this something you're planning to do or look into in the near future? :) ID: 2050 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

sjmielh Send message Joined: 10 Dec 22 Posts: 2 Credit: 4,279,457 RAC: 1,795	Message 2093 - Posted: 17 Aug 2025, 12:01:31 UTC - in response to Message 1970. Technically it's possible to build the binaries for the arm64-apple-macos-11 compiler target. But first I need to figure out how to add arm64 macOS platform to the project because it didn't even exist when this project started. Maybe you can ask on the BOINC forums because you are not the first dealing with this. Thanks! ID: 2093 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Tigers_Dave Send message Joined: 26 Oct 22 Posts: 61 Credit: 18,856,115,581 RAC: 27,004,466	Message 2138 - Posted: 16 Oct 2025, 21:28:36 UTC - in response to Message 2093. Technically it's possible to build the binaries for the arm64-apple-macos-11 compiler target. But first I need to figure out how to add arm64 macOS platform to the project because it didn't even exist when this project started. Maybe you can ask on the BOINC forums because you are not the first dealing with this. Thanks! Given that Amicable Numbers is expected to reach its terminal goal in another six months or so, I don't think it is worth Sergei's effort. Sorry to share the unfortunate news. :-( ID: 2138 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote