How does one run a BOINC client on a network? I have an extra computer I would like to run it on, but it will not let me. It is just a Windows computer, so I would not be using it for much else. Maybe it would be easier to run on several computers of the same OS at once, but I it will be a while before I have some more Linux ones to run it.

Is there anything special about the computer? No network access?

If not, just download the installer and install as usual.

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Kathryn :o)

I did say it is on a network, but the computer will not let me run BOINC: it is an extra one on my router already with a GNU/Linux minicomputer using my account. I never asked anything about exoteric user setup methods: how do I use my account on computers with non-special OSes at the same time, and when I set up more GNU/Linux systems can I distribute BOINC across those more efficiently?

>[...]It will install BOINC client as a Windows service and place a shortcut to BOINC manager in a folder named BOINC on the Start menu.

... which will not let you run it at the same time as you are logged in on Linux or another computer.

('I never asked about exoteric user setup methods,' unless you consider that to include the 'computer' menu, which may be what I seek. The FAQ should say how to run one account distributed: do not some of the researchers do that at their universities?)

BOINC runs on the computer on which it's installed. And then only on the OS for which it's installed.
If you install a Windows version on Windows, and a Linux version on Linux on the same computer, then only the version for the OS that's currently running will work.

And if by university researchers, you're talking about cluster computers (which isn't clear in your posts), then, no. BOINC does NOT run this way.

Excellent!

I may have to recompile a kernel with routing though (I guess otherwise it cannot connect to WAN & LAN simultaneously.) I have at least watched a friend show me how to compile in that stuff for one of my computers....

2.6.24.5 (reinstalled) to the latest (currently compiling.) On 2.4, maybe my friend had to compile in routing. I might have had forgotten to compile my ethernet driver lately, but I will try LAN after my kernels in the morning (anyway my windows' CRT is on a new Slackware system I must re-install.)

Thanks for so far; it sounds simple compared to compiling (esp. kernels, which has been hard within the last 62 months the kernel-howto has been put away and now fully removed.)

Les Bayliss wrote:

[...]And if by university researchers, you're talking about cluster computers (which isn't clear in your posts), then, no. BOINC does NOT run this way.

So no one at any project sometimes runs a client on their PC or asks a friend to on her/his academic computer, nor do they run Beowulf systems?

Dagorath wrote:

I think I know what you want now but I'm still not sure. I think what you mean by "run BOINC distributed" is what we call "controlling BOINC remotely". Try this...[...]

'Clustered' and 'remote control (of multiple systems') sound 'distributed:' my CS dept. runs research with networked labs some nights. Maybe 'manager-client' usage is different than distcc usage, etc., but such programs may usually access through TCP/IP & ethernet: I am more interested in other mathematics-algorithmics.

--David