On a side note, I just installed BOINC into Windows 7 too. Now, of course, you might want to configure the thing to run at start up, or even as a service, but this is getting out of the scope of this post, and there are actually some guides available for that, here are some pointers: boinccmd -project_attach cee742fga12345b123ab27e51bb6d5c4Īnd that’s it… I don’t understand why noone at BOINC took the time to write down those instructions clearly. Attach a project and your user key to the client using boinccmd, for instance:.Detach the screen (CTRL+A, CTRL+D) or open another terminal.(NB: depending on your Linux version, you may need to install curl, for instance on Ubuntu: apt-get install curl) Launch a screen ( screen), inside which you’ll run run_client (.Navigate to the newly created subfolder BOINC ( cd BOINC).Get the BOINC client (for instance, wget ).Note your account key (you’ll need it later).For the example, I’ll be creating an account at Quantum Monte Carlo Home by University of Muenster (Germany). Create an account for the project you want.I recently tried to install it on a Linux server, and got lots of trouble figuring out how to configure it using only the command line: as a definitely mainstream program, they seem to revolve around their GUI and the documentation for the command line, although not inexistent, isn’t of much help when it comes to simply configuring the software… So here’s a complete step-by-step guide (even included the properly documented parts) to get it started: BOINC is a large distributed computing project, or more accurately, a piece of software used by a bunch of distributed computing projects.
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