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Message 11281 - Posted: 25 Dec 2025, 22:40:20 UTC

We have temporarily disabled all mfakto apps due to a bug in checksum output. This incude win, linux and arc. An update is planned for tomorrow.

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Message 11284 - Posted: 26 Dec 2025, 23:19:12 UTC
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Work is been sent out. Hopefully this means the issue has been fixed? I won't ask for any more until I get a response or see a new post saying the issue with the "checksum output bug" has been fixed?
Appreciate your work on this over the festive season
Festive greetings

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Message 11285 - Posted: 27 Dec 2025, 1:20:14 UTC - in response to Message 11284.
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No more work have been sent out. There were over 2k results getting blocked after reporting by primenet. The apps on nvidia are not affected.

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Message 11286 - Posted: 27 Dec 2025, 2:23:40 UTC - in response to Message 11285.

Thank you for explaining

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Message 11287 - Posted: 27 Dec 2025, 4:46:21 UTC

Found this in mersenneforum:

All users are encouraged to upgrade at their earliest convenience.
Note that mersenne.org and mersenne.ca will not accept results from v0.23 or earlier after the end of this year (2025-Dec-31), so please upgrade before then. While you're upgrading mfaktc, it would be a good time to ensure that your AutoPrimeNet installation is also up-to-date (as I write this the current version is 1.1.2)


This is very bad and need an update to all our apps.

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Message 11289 - Posted: 27 Dec 2025, 9:41:38 UTC

I was wondering whether you read it earlier, as the deadline is fast approching. I would expect you were notified specifically as srbase is a large contributer to TF?

Besides that - perhaps obvious, you can find version 0.24 for mfaktc here:
https://download.mersenne.ca/mfaktc

There is also a table there (Windows/Linux) showing that the latest version is build using various CUDA-versions, making sure older(ish)-GPU's can still work. It might be difficult to configure on the server side, however newer NVIDIA 5000-series don't work with CUDA pre-12 build mfaktc whilst older series (pre 1000-series) don't support CUDA 13 and therefore won't work with mfaktc build using CUDA 13.

I hope I state the above correctly, just wanting to help :)
As a final note, boinc can detect the NVIDIA-driver version and perhaps based on that it can determine which mfaktc build to use?

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Message 11290 - Posted: 27 Dec 2025, 10:37:11 UTC - in response to Message 11289.

We cannot use the original precompiled versions because of the multicore modifications for BOINC. I got no PM from the dev. Just read it in forum. I also informed the ARM dev user to build new apps.

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Message 11325 - Posted: 5 Jan 2026, 18:10:14 UTC

Several new apps have been set up. Intel Arc and CUDA11 are still missing. Adjustments still need to be made to the plan_class.

Please report any problems with the application, and if you are not receiving any tasks, as soon as they become available again.

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Message 11326 - Posted: 5 Jan 2026, 21:03:35 UTC
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We have deprecated cuda10, if you want to get more work then update your cuda version to 12. cuda12 apps are running on cc5 min. cuda13 had some issues with driver version so we have decided to let cuda12 apps run for it.

Update:

- apps updates done

If you have any issues let us know.

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Message 11328 - Posted: 6 Jan 2026, 13:48:54 UTC
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We need to replace cuda12.8 win version. The old code from 0.23.3 was used. We will update the app soon.

Update:

new app is up.

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Message 11331 - Posted: 6 Jan 2026, 17:13:28 UTC

We are still trying to fix some code in latest version which failed on 6xxx/7xxxx cards, be patient if you are affected.

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Message 11334 - Posted: 6 Jan 2026, 23:18:47 UTC

New apps for linux and win up

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- fix for 6xxx/7xxx cards + some more.

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Message 11336 - Posted: 7 Jan 2026, 3:44:52 UTC - in response to Message 11325.

I've been trying to download TF tasks for NVIDIA GPU for the last couple of days, and have not gotten any. Do I need to reset some setting or delete an old file due to the changes you have made?

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Message 11337 - Posted: 7 Jan 2026, 7:52:29 UTC - in response to Message 11336.

I've been trying to download TF tasks for NVIDIA GPU for the last couple of days, and have not gotten any. Do I need to reset some setting or delete an old file due to the changes you have made?


Had the same issue + I was impatient.
Clicked 'Reset project' in BOINC and I worked after that.
Not sure if this applies to others too.

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Message 11338 - Posted: 7 Jan 2026, 8:53:19 UTC

A project reset is the best option. There could be an old entry in client_state from older apps somewhere that blocked boinc from downloading.

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Message 11339 - Posted: 7 Jan 2026, 10:04:13 UTC - in response to Message 11336.

I've been trying to download TF tasks for NVIDIA GPU for the last couple of days, and have not gotten any. Do I need to reset some setting or delete an old file due to the changes you have made?


I had to update gpu drivers before I got tasks.

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Message 11342 - Posted: 7 Jan 2026, 22:33:25 UTC - in response to Message 11339.

Thanks all. I reset the project, but still no GPU tasks downloaded. I was able to download GPU tasks on another PC, so after checking I realized GPU drivers on this PC had not been updated in awhile. Updated drivers and GPU downloads started. Thanks WezH!

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Message 11364 - Posted: 12 Jan 2026, 16:55:04 UTC

We are still trying to fix mfakto apps on AMD. A lot of cards are not working and can't solve the selftest.


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