BOINC provides a feature called homogeneous redundancy for such applications. You can enable it for a project by including the line

<homogeneous_redundancy/>

in the config.xml file.

Alternatively, you can enable it selectively for a single application by setting the homogeneous_redundancy field in its database record.

When this feature is enabled, the BOINC scheduler will send results for a given workunit only to hosts with the same operation system name and CPU vendor (i.e., the os_name and p_vendor fields of the host description). For example: if a result has been sent to a host of type (Windows XP, Intel), then other results of that workunit will only be sent to hosts of type (Windows XP, Intel).

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