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
• 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 graphics API
• The application development process

Setting up a BOINC server
      How to install and configure the BOINC server software.

• Road map of the BOINC software
• Server components
• Building server components (Build system)
  • Building the core client for all platforms
• Operational tools
• Setting up a single-host server
• Setting up the BOINC database
• Creating encryption keys
• Setting up a scheduling server
• Setting up a web site
• Setting up a data server
• Test applications and scripts
• Project startup checklist

Developing and operating a BOINC project back end
      How to feed work into a BOINC system and collect the results.

• Back end functions
• Back end state transitions
• Back end programs
• Generating work
• Back end examples

Monitoring the performance of a BOINC project
      Tools for monitoring the system as a whole.

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