One is that it would be difficult to install. There are two major criticisms of the BOINC project: Running your own BOINC server project on Debian (experimental) Projects' support for Debian's architectures Hence, everybody can do something beneficial to the world at large, just by running an unnoticed application in the background. Everything of this infrastructure is Open Source, for the contributors and the scientists with computational demands alike. There is no central organization but every contributor decides by h(im|er)self what project to support. BOINC provides an infrastructure for distributed computing that asks for volunteers world-wide to offer their compute power for a good cause.
This page supports the maintenance of a Debian package for BOINC. Please follow instructions on the project's home page ( ) for more info. You can also see the tasks as regular processes on your computer for inspection with typical command line tools like "ps" or "top". The GUI allows to follow the progress while the client is downloading input data and/or while workunits are processed. Once the GUI is up, find "Add Project" to add a project by selecting on it and then following the instructions.
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If your search engine brought you to this page and you just don't know how to get your machine up and running: # install BOINC For we have a boinc-app-eah-brp to search for binary pulsars in radio signals.ĭebian and Ubuntu folks work together on those packages, which we are very happy about. install boinc-app-seti and the local application is used to search for signals from outer space. For SETI, we have hence prepared a package of their scientific application, i.e. And with Debian, you have the confidence to see a direct correspondence between the source Debian distributes and the application one runs. Debian supports many more platforms than any scientific group. Ignore it at first.īOINC, under your control, downloads and runs external applications. It may serve the curiosity of the one or other casual visitor and possibly attracts more helping hands. The remainder of this page helps the maintainers of these packages to better organise themselves. Then start the boincmgr application to join the project of your liking. BOINC comes as an official part of Debian and with it of Ubuntu, Mint and many others.
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