Hello there ...

I need to execute a python script with boinc. I got my server app and running, I been testing create projects and apps. I'm somewhat familiar with Boinc overall. Now I need to setup an app that execute a python script. This script takes an input file, perform a computation and produces an output. Simple stuff.

In regards to executing python apps I've found PyBoinc (https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/PythonApps) although it looks abandoned (broken links, 12 years since last update). I've also read about PyMW here https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/PyMw, but that also seems abandoned (again, with broken links and old updates).

How could I approach this ? If take care of having python installed on the client devices, can I set up the app to simply execute my script using the clients python cli?

Thanks

I'd suggest you contact the developers at the GPUGrid project. All of their apps are python based. They are experts at setting up a python environment and Boinc wrapper on client machines. It seems to be as simple as packaging a LARGE python environment for downloading as a task and simply, unpacking it and executing the included python scripts in the package.

If only it was possible to profile python environment to see what functions are accessed and then delete all files that aren't used.