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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a middleware system for volunteer and Grid computing

BOINC was developed at University of California, Berkeley. Originally developed to support the SETI@home project, BOINC is now an open source system for distributed application platforms. It can be useful in various areas like mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics, where there is a necessity for enormous computing power. The intent of BOINC is to make it possible for researchers to tap into the enormous processing power of personal computers around the world.

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Ubuntu - how to tell if AVX or SSE, is current being used by CPU app?

I current run BOINC across a number of servers which have GPUs. The servers run both GPU and CPU BOINC apps. As AVX and SSE slow down the CPU freq when being used within a CPU app, I have to be selective which CPU/GPU I run together, as some GPU…
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Make BOINC utilize all cores on raspberry pi 3

I have installed Boinc on a bunch of raspberry pi's. This is the only thing they are used for except for ssh access for configuring. Running with default options only two tasks are crunched simultaneously. This is evident, both with the "boinccmd…
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Boinc : a Windows batch file to resume suspended tasks with the scheduler

Requesting some magic from Windows batch script wizards... :D For competition purposes, members of my team use BoincTasks to automatically suspend Boinc workunits at 99% completion, thus they can resume them after a starting dateline, sending a…
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Error 'can't connect to local host' when I try add project in Boinc client (Google Cloud or AWS)

I'm trying to run project on Google Cloud or AWS. Every time I see same response 'can't connect to local host'. I execute commands according to recommendations: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install boinc boinccmd --lookup_account…
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Difference between BOINC and Hadoop/Spark/etc

What's the difference between BOINC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing vs. General Hadoop/Spark/etc. big data framework? They all seem to be distributed computing frameworks - are there places where I…
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Windows BOINC client - how can I fully customize processor usage?

I was stuck in the limitations of the Boinc Manager interface regarding CPU usage over time. This is particularly important when client runs on a machine that is also used for some other activities and you want to minimize the impact of having Boinc…
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Giving an Apache server rights to access web pages generated by BOINC to get ride of 403 Forbidden

[I'm a newbie when it comes to apache or BOINC so bear with any stupid mistakes I make] What I have: A successfully built BOINC server in /home/local/srinivas/projects/tesla A working apache2 server [version 2.2] What is the problem: The php and…
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Examples of distributed computing tasks relatively common among users

Can you give an example of such tasks? I'm particularly interested in tasks, relevant to quite large amount of people, which could be solved by using distributed computing. (Not a global projects, such as SETI@Home, Folding@Home, etc) As example we…
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How can I turn an XML document into an easy to use C# object?

The Distributed project "World Community Grid" has the ability to get detailed user information such as: makerofthings7 …
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To use servers behind firewall for boinc for public welfare

I have join boinc for public welfare. I have 7 servers with 4 cores behind firewall which is not in using currently and may be empty for one year or life.Because no one care for the project which use these servers. So I want to use them to…
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Why are Computational Fluid Dynamics Problems Difficult to Solve in Parallel Processing?

I've heard this in distributed computing circles. I'm no mechanical engineer. Can you tell why this is so? And are there any solutions to this? P.S: can I use the Finite Element method as a solution?
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How to make BOINC cycle active projects

I have BOINC manager installed on OSX, and I am subscribed to 3 projects Is there a way to schedule the BOINC manager to cycle between these projects after a certain time with each project? PS: It does not have to be a BOINC manager setting. I'm OK…
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Another instance of BOINC manager is already running... - what is the client/password?

I closed (or thought I had closed) the BOINC manager, without ending the tasks. When I opened the manager again to administer the tasks, I was presented with a dialog saying "Another instance of BOINC manager is already running on this computer.…
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Boinc Manager stuck in Ready to report status bar

I'm setttings up boinc manager on ubuntu server and remote from mac os dekstop. my question is i use iptables in ubuntu server. Boinc manager logs says: (BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.) but the Boinc…
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How to open port in boinc useing iptables

witch code do i need to open boinc iptables ? I need to connect to grcpool.com server I found i need to open the port tcp and udp (31416) i'm useing this code: sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 31416 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT sudo iptables…
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