Eternity II: News https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/ Eternity II Community Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:52:26 GMT en-us https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/rss_image.gif https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/ https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=62 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=62 macOS: Apple Silicon (M1–M4) and Intel Macs (macOS 10.15+), same CPU tasks as Windows and Linux. First results validated, same credit.
• 64-bit ARM Linux: Raspberry Pi 4/5 (64-bit OS), ARM boards and servers.

Just click "Update" in BOINC Manager. Thanks to rilian and gemini8 for testing, and to everyone who asked! ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:52:26 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=60 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=60 Version 2.81 of the GPU application is rolling out. It fixes the tasks that crawled for hours near 98%: when progress almost stops, or when the final part takes more than an hour, the last tickets are handed to CPU tasks and the GPU task ends normally (and is credited).
• Bigger tasks for the RTX 4090 and RTX 5090: we measured that a 65,536-ticket task only filled about 60% of an RTX 5090 (it runs about 109,000 tickets at once) and 80% of an RTX 4090. These cards now get a new, bigger GPU application (up to 131,072 tickets per task, often 85,000 to 110,000 depending on the search lane). Credit stays the same per ticket, so a bigger task pays proportionally more. First results are validated.
• New option in your project preferences: "GPU: also accept the next bigger task size than the one chosen for my card". Off by default. If you tick it, your card also gets the next size up (one step only). Useful if you want longer tasks or hours on a second GPU application (WUProp).
• Shorter tasks for the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Ti: they now get 32,768-ticket tasks instead of 65,536, about twice as short, for the same amount of work per hour.
• CPU cores for GPU tasks: each GPU task reserves 2 CPU cores by default. If you prefer another value, set in an app_config.xml in the Eternity project folder (BOINC Manager → Options → Read config files). We are also testing 1 core on a few card families before deciding a new default.

Thanks to pututu, Dargo75, mmonnin, Michael H.W. Weber and everyone who measured and reported! ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:18:48 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=59 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=59 • Up to 8 GPU tasks per card (it was 2). You can run two at once on the same card (app_config.xml with gpu_usage 0.5) and still keep a small buffer.
• Choose your applications: in your Eternity II project preferences, you can now tick which applications you want, for example CPU only or GPU only. Important for GPUs: the server picks the GPU task size for your card model, and a card only runs its own size. So if you want GPU work, keep all the GPU applications ticked: unticking a size can leave your card with nothing to do. If you also answer yes to "If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?", your machine never runs dry.

• More GPU models accepted: TITAN Xp, Tesla T4, T500, Quadro RTX 6000, and the RTX 4070 / 4080 / 4090 / 5060 Laptop GPUs. If your NVIDIA card is still refused, please check your driver first: we need at least 528.33 on Windows or 525.60 on Linux (CUDA 12). With an older driver the card is refused whatever its model.

Thanks to mmonnin, Freewill and Magiceye04 for asking! ]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:48:23 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=56 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=56
This sprint was a real test for me, with very little sleep for the past four days. Originally, Eternity II was only planned for CPUs. I worked like crazy to offer you GPU computing as well, and you answered with incredible power.

What you've achieved in three days (as of 20:00 UTC)
• 3.38 trillion positions per second at the peak: a new project record, almost double the previous one
• 14,827 threads working at the same time: another new record
• 777 quadrillion positions explored: nearly a third of everything the project has computed since it began
• 88,923 boards scoring 463 or more: about 1 in 5 of all the boards of that level the project has ever found
• among them, 3,553 at 464 and 90 at 465, just one point below our best

Unfortunately, we didn't break the score record: our best is still 466 with the five official clues. But finding so many high-scoring boards in three days is still extraordinary.

I'm also very happy that the server held for the whole sprint, at about twice its usual load.

Because GPU support came late, there were cases I hadn't planned for, and some of you ran into them. I'm sorry about that. Every one of them has been written down, and I'll do everything I can to fix them.

Thank you to Formula BOINC for giving me this opportunity. And thank you to all the participants for your commitment, for the enormous power you brought, and for your feedback, which keeps the project moving forward.

We're really happy with this great experience, and we hope to do it again soon!

Benjamin ]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:53:27 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=53 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=53
Eternity II is my first project, and I'm amazed by what you've made of it. I keep working on it every day to answer your requests, fix problems and improve the apps.

Thank you to all of you who give your computers' time to the search, and to everyone who takes a moment to send feedback. Your reports have helped me find real problems, often very quickly.

Every piece of feedback is noted, even when the answer is "not now". All your requests and ideas are on one list that I'll go through after the sprint. I can't promise that everything will be done, but nothing is forgotten.

During the Formula BOINC sprint, though, making changes is complicated. A new app version or a server change could disturb the computers of everyone taking part. So for now I'm mostly keeping things stable, and the bigger improvements will come afterwards.

Thanks for your patience, and enjoy the sprint!

Benjamin ]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:57:57 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=46 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=46 Sunday 1 November, 22:00 UTC. We've worked hard to be ready: GPU tasks are open to every compatible NVIDIA computer, and the server keeps a large reserve of work, refilled automatically.

Every task is a lottery ticket for a 463 board or better. Maybe the next record comes from your computer! If anything looks wrong, tell us in the forum, I'm watching closely.

Good luck and have fun!
Benjamin ]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:20:06 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=45 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=45 automatically, with nothing to request.

Who will receive GPU tasks
• Computers with an NVIDIA graphics card, on Windows or Linux, with a recent driver (528 or newer on Windows, 525 or newer on Linux).
• Each GPU task is sized for your exact card model.
• Cards we don't know yet, and computers mixing several different card models, won't receive GPU tasks for now. They keep their usual CPU work.

If you don't want GPU tasks
Your choice is always respected. Any one of these options works:
1. For all your computers: open your Eternity@home project preferences, click Edit preferences and uncheck "Use NVIDIA GPU". Your CPU work continues normally.
2. For one computer only: in BOINC Manager, menu Activity, choose "Suspend GPU".
3. Only while you use your computer: in BOINC Manager, Options → Computing preferences, uncheck "Use GPU while computer is in use".

If you have already turned GPU off, nothing changes for you.

Thank you all for your support. Questions are welcome in the forum! ]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:25:37 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=44 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=44 40 GPU models have now produced validated results (updated 22 October 2026):
- GT / GTX: 1030, 750 Ti, 980 Ti, 1060 3GB, 1070, 1070 Ti, 1080, 1650 SUPER, 1650 Ti, 1660 SUPER and 1660 Ti.
- RTX 20: 2080, 2080 SUPER and 2080 Ti.
- RTX 30: 3060 Laptop, 3060 Ti, 3070, 3070 Ti, 3080, 3080 Ti and 3090 Ti.
- RTX 40: 4060, 4060 Laptop, 4060 Ti, 4070 Ti SUPER, 4080 and 4090.
- RTX 50: 5060, 5060 Ti, 5070, 5070 Laptop, 5070 Ti and 5080.
- Other NVIDIA models: MX350, TITAN V, T600, L4, Quadro M4000M, RTX A4000 and RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU.
These successes apply to the configurations tested; the beta continues.
If BOINC is no longer receiving work, check “Allow new tasks”, then click “Update”.
An amazing community milestone! Together, we have reached 1,002.37 G nodes/s — over one trillion nodes explored per second! A huge thank you to everyone contributing through CPUs and GPUs, and to all our volunteers for their testing, feedback and patience. Your support keeps the project moving forward! ]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:46:58 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=43 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=43 The NVIDIA GPU beta is moving forward!

Cards with validated results:
RTX 3070, 3080 Ti, 3090 Ti, 4060, 4080, 4090, 5070 Ti, 5080, RTX 2000 Ada Laptop and TITAN V.

Testing in progress:
GTX 1060 3GB, GTX 1070, T600, Quadro M4000M, RTX 3060 Laptop and RTX 3070 Ti.

A big thank you to everyone helping us by running the applications and sharing feedback!

Full information and test updates are available on the forum. ]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:25:53 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=41 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=41 466/480: the world-record level

Congratulations to Jef, KetamiNO [YouTube], vanos0512 and mmonnin, who each found a board at 466/480 with all five official clues, the best known result under the official rules. Well done also to everyone who found one of this week's 111 boards at 465!

Call for NVIDIA GPU beta testers

We have built a hybrid GPU + CPU version of the search:
• the graphics card explores tens of thousands of tickets at the same time;
• a few CPU threads compute the deep end-game phases in parallel;
• at the end of a task, the last hardest tickets are handed over to ordinary CPU tasks, with the aim of keeping the card supplied with new work. Server-side refill is still being verified.

The results are identical to the CPU app, checked ticket by ticket. On our test card (RTX 5070 Ti), a task of 65,552 tickets was completed in 1 h 02.

It has only run on one card so far. Before any public release, we need to test it on as many different cards and systems as possible.

Who we are looking for:
• NVIDIA GTX 750/750 Ti, GTX 900/10/16 and RTX 20/30/40/50 series, plus compatible Quadro/Tesla/TITAN models, subject to exact model and driver checks. A separate 48 KiB variant (2.69) is now available to approved legacy hosts; physical validation on those older cards is still in progress. GTX 760/760 Ti remain outside this beta;
• Windows 10/11 or Linux 64-bit (recent distributions);
• an up-to-date NVIDIA driver.

What to expect: power use varies with the workload; the GPU application also reserves some CPU resources, so expect additional heat and fan noise. It is a beta: tasks may run longer, or fail, while we tune it.

How to join: anyone who would like to test can reply below this post or send me a private message. Please include your BOINC username, your card model and memory, your operating system, your driver version, and whether the computer runs most of the day. We will enable the beta on your account and keep you posted.

More information : https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=42

Thank you all! ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:10:30 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=38 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=38 This is a major milestone for the project and the result of an impressive amount of computing work.
A special 466 badge has been awarded to his profile.
Congratulations and thank you for your outstanding contribution! 🏆
https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/show_user.php?userid=13 ]]> Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:19:44 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=36 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=36
To benefit from it, your BOINC client must also ask for that much work. In Options → Computing preferences → Network, raise "Store at least … days of work" and/or "Store up to an additional … days of work" (for example 1 day). The client never fetches more than these settings allow.

A few more notes:

Tasks still have a 7-day deadline, so a one-day queue leaves plenty of margin.
The server keeps a large reserve of ready tasks and refills it automatically.
The limit is per thread: a 32-thread machine can hold up to 960 tasks.
Thanks to everyone who asked for this, and happy crunching! ]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:44:55 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=29 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=29
We're looking for team members and team captains who would be willing to bring their team along for a short stress test. No date is set yet: we'll pick one together, at a time that suits the teams who volunteer.

If your team could take part, or you'd like to help organise it, please reply in this thread (or send me a private message) with:

your team name;
roughly how many computers or cores you could bring;
the days and times that would suit you.
All tasks during the test are real work and are credited normally. Thanks a lot, it really helps us get ready for the next step! ]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:35:53 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=25 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=25
A few other improvements went live at the same time:

the progress bar now goes all the way to 100% instead of stopping early;
very large machines that had trouble reporting results can now connect normally again;
results reach our database faster.
Thanks to all of you for your patience and your support! ]]> Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:39:46 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=22 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=22
It ran into a problem last night. It has been stopped, work generation is back on the usual path, and the affected tasks were cancelled server-side — your clients will drop them on their own, nothing for you to do.

Impact. No validated results lost; the cancelled tasks had not started computing. Queues are refilling.

We're continuing to work on it to make it solid before putting it back in service. ]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:21:11 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=16 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=16 This update includes:
- Correct handling of task and project suspension: computations now actually stop when BOINC suspends them.
- Reliable resume after suspension or BOINC restart.
- Completed tickets are saved and are no longer recomputed after a restart.
- Improved checkpoint handling.
- More accurate reporting of real computed nodes and progress.
- Several stability improvements for both Windows and Linux.
The new version was tested with validated results on both platforms before deployment. BOINC clients will receive it automatically during their next communication with the server. Existing 2.29 tasks can finish normally.
Thank you to everyone who reported issues and helped test this update. ]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:15:02 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=11 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=11 Tasks already running will continue normally. Completed results will remain queued locally and will be uploaded automatically when the server returns. No action is required on your side. ]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:50:25 GMT https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=2 https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=2
No work is discarded and ongoing tasks are not interrupted. We are validating each platform before publishing updates. Thank you for contributing your CPU time to the Eternity II search. ]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:44:25 GMT