Project Update

[Dingo]

Eternity II: Infrastructure update: work supply and Windows telemetry
We are improving the BOINC infrastructure in two areas: continuous work supply so computers stay busy, and accurate live throughput reporting for Windows and Linux.

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.
27/09/2026 10:44:25 PM · more info...

[Dingo]

Eternity II: Version 2.31 deployed on Windows and Linux
Version 2.31 of the Eternity II BOINC application is now available to all participants.

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.
30/09/2026 6:15:02 PM · more info...

[Polaxis]

nice, a new project.
Signed up and already doing some work. Hope you can create the team soon @Dingo 

[Dingo]

BOINC@AUSTRALIA Team Created.  https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/team_display.php?teamid=32

[Polaxis]

BOINC@AUSTRALIA Team Created.  https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/team_display.php?teamid=32

Thx!
There is also another new BOINC project:
https://bitboinc.athena.org.tr/

[Dingo]

BOINC@AUSTRALIA Team Created.  https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/team_display.php?teamid=32

Thx!
There is also another new BOINC project:
https://bitboinc.athena.org.tr/

Not going to add that one till BOINCStats and/or FreeDC add it to their list.  It looks a bit dodgy to me non BOINC web site and who is getting the $$ for the bitcoins ??

[Abruraspingi]

Having a quick squiz at what this project is about
"Eternity II is a concrete combinatorial game designed to be resistant to brute-force computational solving"

"Eternity II is classified as an NP-complete problem, with an estimated
10^557 possible arrangements, making it practically unsolvable by current computers without heuristics"

Sounds like a perfect project for BOINC

[Abruraspingi]

Like most maths problems it's great for making puzzles
https://www.rookiemag.com/2013/12/ltbte-eternity-puzzle/

[Polaxis]

100% agree

[Dingo]

Eternity II: AMD Radeon and Intel Arc GPUs are now open to everyone!

After the beta, the OpenCL application is now available to all volunteers:
• AMD Radeon and Intel Arc (A and B series), on Windows and Linux. On Linux, AMD needs the official ROCm OpenCL driver (Mesa "radeonsi" is not supported).

Task sizes

Until tomorrow, AMD and Intel cards get 16,384-ticket tasks. Older AMD cards (RX 460 to 590, Vega 56/64, Radeon VII) get smaller 8,192-ticket tasks. Tomorrow we will adjust the size for each card model to get the best out of it. To do that well we need your results first, so every task you run tonight really helps!

How to get GPU work

• Use the official drivers: AMD Adrenalin on Windows, Intel compute runtime on Linux. OpenCL 2.0 is required.
• In your Eternity@Home project preferences ( https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/prefs.php?subset=project ), check that "Use AMD GPU" or "Use Intel GPU" is set to yes, and that the applications "Eternity II GPU (16,384-ticket tasks)" and "Eternity II GPU (8,192-ticket tasks)" are selected.
• In BOINC Manager, select Eternity@Home in the Projects tab and click Update. Your computer will ask for GPU work right away instead of waiting for its next scheduled contact.
• A newly attached computer may need a few minutes before it gets GPU work.

Not supported: integrated graphics (AMD Radeon Graphics, 610M/680M/780M, Intel UHD/Iris/Arc integrated) and older cards without OpenCL 2.0. They would be far too slow.

A big thank you to all the beta testers who made this possible!
10-Nov-26 21:57:30 · more info...