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Its been a while since sixtrack work was available that did run on Linux Arm64. The upgrade of Sixtrack, xtrack is in preperation since years. Absolute no idea when there will be new work. https://github.com/xsuite/xboinc/releases At least looking on the Project Mac(Arm/apple silicon) has an executable https://github.com/xsuite/xboinc/pull/13 But they are right now only testing linux und Windows x86 on the Dev server https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php And the other tasks run on Virtualbox, linux native or what is right now prepared on Docker(as replacement for Native and virtualbox) But that are all x86 tasks so far. They seem to test Docker only on Intel Macs(x86) right now https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/forum_thread.php?id=685 At least in the Wiki is Installing docker/podman on Apple silicon mentioned https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Installing-Docker-on-Mac but no idea how much work it would be to get the quite complex LHC programs to run stable and Efficient on an different CPU architecture like Arm64/Apple silicon. |
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