Creating a BOINC project

• Anatomy of a BOINC project
• What applications are suitable for BOINC?
• Files and file references
• Platforms, applications, and versions
• Workunits
• Results
• Batches
• Work distribution
• Handling long computations
• Remote file access
• Accounting and result validation
• Back end examples
• Security

• The BOINC API
• The BOINC graphics API
• The application development process

• Road map of the BOINC software
• Server components
• Setting up the BOINC database
• Creating encryption keys
• Setting up a scheduling server
• Setting up a web site
• Setting up a data server
• Setting up a single-host server
• Test applications and scripts
• Project startup checklist

• Tools for key generation and encryption
• Tools for creating applications and versions
• Tools for creating work and results