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Message 44960 - Posted: 17 May 2021, 22:17:39 UTC

Running Boinc 7.16.14 under macOS 11.3.1 on new Macbook Air
lhc@home not getting new tasks
lhc@home uninstalled and re-installed
other projects run fine
even if I suspend all the other projects, still doesn't fetch any tasks
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Message 44963 - Posted: 18 May 2021, 6:35:02 UTC - in response to Message 44960.  

You may take a look on your computer details page:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10685850

Your BOINC client is not able to identify the CPU of your computer.
=> "CPU type" is shown empty

Your BOINC client is also not able to identify whether your CPU has hardware virtualization support.
To run VBox apps from LHC@home hardware virtualization support is a must.
You will not get any of them unless you solved that issue.

SixTrack is the only app here that doesn't need VBox, but it currently has no tasks to be send out.
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Message 44964 - Posted: 18 May 2021, 8:39:27 UTC

This PC have the new M1-Chip from Apple.
Maybe, it need something more then the Standard-Installation from the software-side.
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Message 44970 - Posted: 18 May 2021, 16:44:36 UTC - in response to Message 44963.  

This laptop does have the Apple M1 chip.
So I have to wait for a future update of the BOINC client?
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Message 44971 - Posted: 18 May 2021, 17:22:22 UTC - in response to Message 44970.  

You will need both, a BOINC client as well as a VirtualBox version that can deal with the M1.

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc
https://www.virtualbox.org/
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Message 44972 - Posted: 18 May 2021, 18:34:29 UTC - in response to Message 44971.  

That doesn't explain why other projects are running successfully on boinc/M1
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Message 44977 - Posted: 19 May 2021, 9:05:46 UTC - in response to Message 44972.  

Other projects?
There's just one project (Rosetta) from your project list that got recent credits for this computer:
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1530780

Like here the computer details there show no CPU with an M1 GPU attached 2012-04-01.
Guess this was neither a very early M1 sample nor an April Fools' Day joke.
More likely would be that you restored an existing BOINC installation from an older computer.
This may work with traditional BOINC apps like that from Rosetta.
It may also work with SixTrack but not with complex apps using an additional intermediate software layer like VirtualBox.

Be aware that the LHC app list (https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php) explicitly specifies Intel 64-bit to be used as Apple platform.
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Message 44981 - Posted: 19 May 2021, 15:02:05 UTC - in response to Message 44977.  

OK Thanks. We'll see what happens with M1 support in the future. Cheers.
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Message 44984 - Posted: 20 May 2021, 18:36:19 UTC

I am also not getting any work units since sixtrack is offline. I am running 3 machines all on Ubuntu 20.04. I have Virtualbox installed.
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Message 44985 - Posted: 20 May 2021, 19:12:32 UTC - in response to Message 44984.  

It's not possible to make any suggestions as long as your computers are hidden.
You may make them visible for other volunteers here:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/prefs.php?subset=project
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