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<title>Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)</title>
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<h2>Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)</h2>
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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for public-participation distributed computing projects like
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distributed.net and SETI@home.
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<li> <a href="intro.html">Introduction</a>
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<h3>Participating in BOINC projects</h3>
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<font size=-1>
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<dd> How to donate your unused computing power
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to projects that use BOINC.
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<li> <a href="account.html">Participant accounts</a>
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<li> <a href="prefs.html">Preferences</a>
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<li> <a href="startup.html">Participant startup</a>
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</ul>
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<h3>Designing a distributed computation with BOINC</h3>
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<font size=-1>
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<dd> Read this if you are considering using distributed computing
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for your a compute- or storage-intensive application.
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<ul>
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<li><a href=parallelize.html>Is your application suitable?</a>
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<li><a href=files.html>Compute model: files and file references</a>
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<li><a href=app.html>Compute model: applications, platforms and versions</a>
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<li><a href=work.html>Compute model: workunits</a>
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<li><a href=result.html>Compute model: results</a>
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<li><a href=batch.html>Compute model: batches</a>
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<li><a href=flow.html>Compute model: work distribution</a>
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<li><a href=affinity.html>Compute model: handling very long computations</a>
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<li><a href=file_access.html>Compute model: remote file access</a>
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<li><a href=validation.html>Accounting and result validation</a>
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<li><a href=back_end.html>Back end examples</a>
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</ul>
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<h3>Developing a BOINC application</h3>
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<font size=-1>
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<dd> Read this to learn how to port an application to BOINC.
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<ul>
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<li><a href=api.html>The API</a>
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<li><a href=graphics.html>The graphics API</a>
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<li><a href=dev.html>Application development</a></ul>
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<h3>Setting up a BOINC server</h3>
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<font size=-1>
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<dd> Read this to learn how to create a BOINC project.
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<li><a href=project.html>Projects</a>
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<li> <a href="master_url.html">The master URL</a>
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<li> <a href=road_map.html>Road map of the BOINC software</a>
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<li> <a href="install.html">Installing a BOINC server</a>
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<li> <a href="project_startup.html">Project startup checklist</a>
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<li> <a href="sched_server.html">The BOINC scheduling server</a>
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<li> <a href="test.html">Test applications and scripts</a>
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<h3>Developing and operating the back end of a BOINC project</h3>
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<font size=-1>
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<dd> Read this to learn how to feed work into a BOINC system,
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and collect the results.
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<li> <a href="tools_security.html">Operational tools: security</a>
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<li> <a href="tools_other.html">Operational tools: applications and versions</a>
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<li> <a href="tools_work.html">Operational tools: work and results</a>
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<li> <a href="security.html">Security</a>
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</ul>
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<h3>Implementation and debugging of BOINC</h3>
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<font size=-1>
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<dd> Read this to learn how to debug and enhance the BOINC software.
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<li> <a href="database.html">The BOINC database</a>
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<li> <a href="client_files.html">Core Client: file structure</a>
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<li> <a href="client_fsm.html">Core Client: FSM structure</a>
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<li> <a href="client_data.html">Core Client: data structures</a>
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<li> <a href="client_logic.html">Core client: logic</a>
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<li> <a href="client_debug.html">Core client: debugging</a>
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<li> <a href="protocol.html">The BOINC client/server protocol</a>
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<li> <a href="sched_policy.html">Scheduling server: policy</a>
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<li> <a href="sched_impl.html">Scheduling server: implementation</a>
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<li> <a href="sched_debug.html">Scheduling server: debugging</a>
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<li> <a href="host_measure.html">Host measurements</a>
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<li> <a href="rpc_policy.html">Scheduler RPC timing and retry policies</a>
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<li> <a href="pers_file_xfer.html">Persistent file transfers</a>
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