Apple M1, M2, M3, M4

[muziqaz]

And then you need to convince Joseph to pursue this...

[Joe_H]

No, not just Joseph but the people heading up the F@h Consortium and researchers in the various groups that are part of the consortium. Greg Bowman is the director. Vincent Voelz and John Chodera are the two main research lab heads working in the consortium, and work with Greg on its direction. They are the ones who pay Joseph and ultimately direct what he spends time on.

[calxalot]

The cores also use cbang, so there does need to be some detection.
And another ComputeDevice type.

Artoria2e5 has read the code and is not hand waving.

I consider it hand waving of the sort that usually comes with the statement "It's just a simple matter of programming". The change cascades at least into the client and server code and would need to be done in a way that doesn't break existing support for GPUs on Windows and Linux.

Sure, but Artoria2e5 is a developer and knows the complexities that arise.
You may see they have already contributed PRs on GitHub.

A lot has to happen before we have to worry about server code/config.

[calxalot]

Joseph has already accepted GPU support on Apple as an enhancement request.
So he is not opposed.
Volunteers can do a lot of the lifting.

Support for Apple GPU Acceleration in Folding Client
https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-cl ... issues/303