Summary documents

• Overview of BOINC
• A BOINC seminar by Juan Antonio Lopez Perez of CERN, presented at CIEMAT in Madrid, November 2005. Also available in a print version.

Designing distributed computations with BOINC

• What applications are suitable for BOINC?
• Basic concepts
  • Projects and applications
  • Files and file references
  • Platforms
  • Applications and application versions
  • Workunits
  • Results
• Work distribution
  • Redundancy and errors
  • Numerical discrepancies
  • Work distribution
  • Locality scheduling
• Trickle messages
• Security issues

Developing a BOINC application

• The BOINC API
  • Basic API
  • Diagnostics API
  • Graphics API
  • Trickle messages API
  • Intermediate upload API
• Application development
  • Example application
  • Application development tips
  • Application debugging
• FORTRAN applications
• Compound applications

Creating a BOINC project

• What is a project?
  • The BOINC database
  • Directory structure
  • The project configuration file
• Compile BOINC software
• How to create a project
  • The make_project script
  • Adding applications/platforms
  • Adding application versions
  • Project creation cookbook
  • Another cookbook, from Jacques Fontignie
  • Another cookbook, from Don Bashford
• Project control
• Project security
  • Code signing
• Upgrading a project's server software

Getting work done

• Overview of daemons
• Generating work
• Result validation
• Result assimilation
• Server-side file deletion
• Database purging utility

Monitoring a BOINC project

• Administrative web interface
• Debugging server components
• Watchdogs
• Stripcharts: a tool for viewing time-varying data
• Recording data for Stripcharts

Managing distributed data

• Uploading file lists
• Uploading files
• Downloading files
• Deleting files on client hosts

Web site

• Managing the project web site
• Add project-specific links to the client GUI
• Web site translation
• Server status page

Miscellaneous

• Export credit data as XML
• Integrating BOINC projects with Grids
• Versions of BOINC
• Configuring MySQL for BOINC

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