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| This page intends to describe the usage of BOINC on Fedora 7 and higher.
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| = What is BOINC =
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| The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-
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| source software platform which supports distributed computing, primarily in
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| the form of "volunteer" computing and "desktop Grid" computing. It is well
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| suited for problems which are often described as "trivially parallel". BOINC
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| is the underlying software used by projects such as SETI@home, Einstein@Home,
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| ClimatePrediciton.net, the World Community Grid, and many other distributed
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| computing projects.
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| = Related packages =
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| As far only the client side of BOINC is packaged.
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| * '''boinc-client''' Core client needed for running BOINC
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| * '''boinc-manager''' GUI for managing BOINC
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| * '''boinc-client-devel''' Development subpackage
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| * '''boinc-client-debuginfo''' Debuginfo subpackage
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| = Using BOINC on Fedora =
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| 1. Install the package ''boinc-client'' and also ''boinc-manager'' if you want to control BOINC via the GUI.
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| 2. Start the boinc daemon:
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| <pre>
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| service boinc-client start </pre>
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| You should see the following output:
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| <pre> The BOINC client requires initialization. [WARNING]
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| Starting BOINC client as a daemon: [ OK ] </pre>
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| The WARNING is displayed because BOINC is not attached to any project.
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| {{ Template:message/warning | Always use the ''service boinc-client start/stop'' command or BOINC Manager to start/stop BOINC daemon. Do '''NOT''' run boinc_client directly.
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| 3. Choose a project to attach:
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| a. Using GUI - BOINC Manager. Choose Advanced -> Select computer from the menu. Type "localhost" as host name and password which is stored in ''/var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg''.
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| a. Using CLI - type ''man boinc_cmd'' for details.
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| {{ Template:message/note | If you want to set an empty password for BOINC, just paste '''only''' a newline into ''/var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg''
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| 4. Consider starting BOINC automatically. To achieve this, either type:
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| /sbin/chkconfig boinc-client on </pre> as root or setup the same using the GUI (system-config-services).
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| For more details, please refer to the manual pages: '''boinc''', '''boinc_client''', '''boincmgr''', '''boinc_cmd'''.
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| [[Category:Packages]] | | [[Category:Packages]] |
