Joining a project
A participant joins a BOINC project as follows:
- Visit the project's web site and create an account.
This involves filling out a form with
- An email address.
- A public "screen name" (real name or nickname).
- A web password (chosen by the user).
This is used to access the account via the project's web site.
- Receive an email containing an account ID
(a long random string).
- Download and install the BOINC client program.
It will ask for an account ID;
cut and paste the one in the email.
The BOINC client resides in a BOINC home directory.
If hosts share a network file system,
each host must have its own BOINC home directory.
Multiple hosts under one account
A single account can use many hosts.
Once an account has been created as above,
new hosts can be added in either of two ways:
- Download and install the BOINC client program,
and cut and paste the account ID as above.
- If the new host is the same type as an existing host,
copy the contents of the BOINC installation directory
from an existing host to the new host.