Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of QuickStart


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Jun 6, 2008, 4:01:46 PM (16 years ago)
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    2020 * When prompted, enter the URL '''http://a.b.c.d/test/''', and enter an email and password.
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    22 Your BOINC client will immediately being fetching and executing jobs from the server.
    23 You can repeat this on as many clients as you want.
     22Your BOINC client will immediately being fetching and executing jobs from the server
     23(the jobs are for a sample application that uses 1 minute of CPU time
     24and processes a 4 MB file).
     25You can repeat this on as many computers as you want.
     26Voila!  You're doing distributed computing.
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    2528In a web browser, visit '''http://a.b.c.d/test'''.
     
    2730You can log in (using the same email/password) and access
    2831your volunteer account information.
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     33== Running your own application ==
     34
     35Suppose that instead of the sample application, you want to run your own.
     36Logged in to the virtual server, type
     37{{{
     38cd ~/projects/test
     39html/ops/single_job_setup.php ~/boinc_samples
     40}}}
     41and follow the resulting instructions.
     42This configures your project to handle "single job" submissions.
     43Then compile a program in your home directory.
     44Say the program is '''a.out''' and that it writes to stdout.
     45Then, in your home directory, type
     46{{{
     47boinc/tools/boinc_submit --stdout foo a.out
     48}}}
     49When this completes, '''foo''' will contain the output of a.out,
     50run on one of the BOINC client hosts.
     51
     52== What's next? ==
     53
     54This demonstrates how you can use BOINC to run programs remotely,
     55but it's not the complete picture.
     56In particular:
     57
     58 * This demo uses only Linux clients.  BOINC lets you use heterogeneous pools of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other clients.
     59 * This demo involves manual submission of single jobs.  BOINC lets you create automated systems that create and handle millions of jobs per day.
     60 * In this demo, we trust the client to return correct results.  BOINC lets you set things up so that results from faulty or malicious clients are automatically detected and rejected.
     61
     62... and many, many other things.
     63Keep on reading.