From 015ed6059823bee0abb1b8f5491c662074876e7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Anderson Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:27:30 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated BOINC overview (markdown) --- BOINC-overview.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/BOINC-overview.md b/BOINC-overview.md index 885983b..ead860e 100644 --- a/BOINC-overview.md +++ b/BOINC-overview.md @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ BOINC is a platform for distributed computing. It is designed to support 'high throughput computing': -with large numbers of independent compute-intensive jobs, +large numbers of independent compute-intensive jobs, and the performance goal of high rate of job completion rather than low turnaround time of individual jobs. It also has features to support [distributed data storage](VolunteerStorage) and [distributed parallel computing](Sporadic-applications). -BOINC has a client/server architecture: -the 'server' distributes jobs, +BOINC has a client/server architecture. +The 'server' distributes jobs, while the 'client' runs on worker nodes, and execute jobs. BOINC can use worker nodes that are: