Participants
To ask questions, or to report bugs in the BOINC client software,
please go to the
Message
board area of SETI@home.
There are
web sites for BOINC participants
in various languages.
See also
GUIs and add-on software for BOINC.
Mailing lists
The follow mailing lists are available.
Click to subscribe or post to a list.
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boinc_projects
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This list is for people operating BOINC projects.
Use it to ask questions, report bugs, or request enhancements to
the BOINC server software.
Announcements of modifications and upgrades to BOINC will posted here.
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boinc_dev
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This list is for people developing, debugging or porting the BOINC software.
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boinc_stats
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This list is for people developing web sites showing statistics
for BOINC projects.
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boinc_opt
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This list is for people porting and optimizing BOINC applications.
Getting source code
At any given point there are two different versions
of the BOINC source code (maintained as separate CVS projects):
- boinc is the development version.
It may be unstable, and it may not be compatible with public BOINC projects.
- boinc_public is the stable version.
It generally is the version being used
(on both client and server) by public BOINC projects.
You can get the BOINC source code in several ways:
Source code for a typical BOINC application,
SETI@home, is here.
Bug database
You can browse the BOINC
bug-tracking database.
News feeds
RSS-based news feeds are available from BOINC
and from several BOINC-based projects:
- BOINC: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/rss_main.php
- BOINC alpha test: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/boinc_alpha/rss_main.php
- BOINC beta test: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/rss_main.php
Other
A good summary of distributed computing projects,
including those based on BOINC, is at
www.aspenleaf.com.
For inquiries about BOINC, contact Dr. David P. Anderson,
the director of the BOINC project, at davea at ssl.berkeley.edu.
If you have problems with the BOINC software for Windows please email
Rom Walton: rwalton at ssl.berkeley.edu.
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