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Volunteer Computing with BOINC

PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE PAGES ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED AS AN EXERCISE BY STUDENTS OF THE AIMS / Africa@home Workshop, July 16-21, 2007

Daniel Lombraña González, July 14 2007 ("teleyinex")

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a middle-ware system for volunteer computing. The goal of this project is to harness the idle CPU cycles of desktop machines for running scientific applications.

Volunteer Computing

BOINC Infrastructure

The client

Building the client

The server

Getting the source code

Software prerequisites

Building on GNU/Linux

Building BOINC examples

Porting scientific applications to BOINC