Participants

To ask questions, or to report bugs in the BOINC client software, please go to the Message board area of SETI@home.

There are web sites for BOINC participants in various languages.

Mailing lists

The follow mailing lists are available. Click to subscribe or post to a list.

boinc_projects: This list is for people operating BOINC projects. Use it to ask questions, report bugs, or request enhancements to the BOINC server software. Announcements of modifications and upgrades to BOINC will posted here.
boinc_dev: This list is for people developing, debugging or porting the BOINC software.
boinc_stats: This list is for people developing web sites showing statistics for BOINC projects.
boinc_cvs: Summaries of BOINC CVS checkins are posted to this list.
boinc_opt: This list is for people porting and optimizing BOINC applications.

Getting source code

At any given point there are two different versions of the BOINC source code (maintained as separate CVS projects):

boinc is the development version. It may be unstable, and it may not be compatible with public BOINC projects.
boinc_public is the stable version. It generally is the version being used (on both client and server) by public BOINC projects.

You can get the BOINC source code in several ways:

Download a tarball or .zip file (generated nightly).
Browse the CVS repository via a web-based interface.

Access the CVS repository directly, e.g. with a command like

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@alien.ssl.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout boinc

Source code for a typical BOINC application, SETI@home, is here.

Bug database

You can browse the BOINC bug-tracking database.

News feeds

RSS-based news feeds are available from BOINC and from several BOINC-based projects:

BOINC: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/rss_main.php
BOINC alpha test: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/boinc_alpha/rss_main.php
BOINC beta test: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/rss_main.php

Other

A good summary of distributed computing projects, including those based on BOINC, is at www.aspenleaf.com.

For inquiries about BOINC, contact Dr. David P. Anderson, the director of the BOINC project, at davea at ssl.berkeley.edu. If you have problems with the BOINC software for Windows please email Rom Walton: rwalton at ssl.berkeley.edu. "; page_tail(); ?>