Ah yes, on Einstein it was my fault. The OS X version that I entered
was derived from a person's computer running ABP2. It doesn't say in
the Applications page which version is needed, nor in the thread on
the forums. I read Darwin 10.3.0 and misdeduced. :-)

Collatz show it like that in their app page:
http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php
"Mac OS 10.4 or later running on Intel  2.02 (cuda)"

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Charlie Fenton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:39 AM +0200 6/4/10, Jorden van der Elst wrote:
>>
>> I've adapted
>> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing#Attach_to_projects_with_GPU_applications
>> to show OSes.
>
> Thanks Jord, but I'm afraid that change is not quite correct, for a couple
> of reasons.  I've edited the wiki some more to try to help ease the
> confusion.
>
> First, the NVIDIA web site says that for the current version 3.0 of the Mac
> drivers require Mac OS X version 10.5.6 or later (which is Darwin 9.6.0 or
> later):
> <http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/3_0/docs/GettingStartedMacOS.pdf>
>
> The older NVIDIA driver version 2.3 supports Mac version OS X 10.5.2 (Darwin
> 9.2.0) or later, but for clarity I didn't include that information on the
> Wiki page.  Anyone running OS 10.5 should have upgraded to OS X 10.5.8,
> which is a free update.  And people installing the CUDA drivers for the
> first time on Windows or Linux should get the newest drivers.
>
> Second, those changes have confused the Darwin version with the OS X
> version.  BOINC doesn't support OS X 10.3.0, and Intel Macs don't run on OS
> X 10.3.x at all.
>
> As I tried to explain before:
> OS X 10.6.3 = Darwin 10.3.0
> OS X 10.5.8 = Darwin 9.8.0
> OS X 10.4.11 = Darwin 8.11.0
> OS X 10.3.9 = Darwin 7.9.0
>
> In general:
>  - Darwin version 10.x.y corresponds to OS 10.6.x
>  - Darwin version 9.x.y corresponds to OS 10.5.x
>  - Darwin version 8.x.y corresponds to OS 10.4.x
>  - Darwin version 7.x.y corresponds to OS 10.3.x
>
> The third part of the Darwin version number should be ignored; as far as I
> have seen, it is always zero.
>
>



-- 
-- Jord.
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