Designing distributed computations with BOINC
      BOINC's abstractions of data and computation.

• Projects and applications
• What applications are suitable for BOINC?
• Files and file references
• Platforms
• Applications and application versions
• Workunits
• Results
• Redundancy and errors
• Homogeneous redundancy
• Work distribution
• Locality scheduling
• Trickle messages
• Security
• Versions of BOINC

Developing a BOINC application
      How to develop or port an application program for use with BOINC.

• The BOINC API
• The BOINC diagnostics API
• The BOINC graphics API
• Application development
• FORTRAN applications
• Compound applications
• Trickle messages
• Application debugging
• App development cookbook (courtesy of Eric Myers from Vassar)

Compiling BOINC software
      How to configure and compile the BOINC software.

• Software prerequisites
• Road map of the BOINC software
• Build system
• Building server components
• Building the core client
• Test applications and scripts
• Compiling BOINC on Red Hat Linux 7.x (by Eric Myers)
• Build instructions for SSL (Secure Socket Layer) client

Creating a BOINC project
      The components of a BOINC project, and how to create them.

• Project creation cookbook
• What is a project?
• The BOINC database
• Directory structure
• The project configuration file
• The make_project script
• Project control
• Adding applications/platforms
• Code signing
• Adding application versions
• Upgrading a project's server software

Getting work done
      How to generate tasks and handle the results.

• Overview of daemons
• Generating work
• Result validation
• Result assimilation
• Server-side file deletion
• Database purging utility

Monitoring a BOINC project
      Tools for monitoring a BOINC project

• Administrative web interface
• Watchdogs
• Stripcharts: a tool for viewing time-varying data
• Recording data for Stripcharts

Managing distributed data
      Using disk space on participant hosts

• Uploading file lists
• Uploading files
• Downloading files
• Deleting files on client hosts

Web site
      Communicating with participants via the web

• Managing the project web site
• Add project-specific links to the client GUI

Miscellaneous

• Integrating BOINC projects with Grids

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