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David Anderson 2024-01-11 17:27:30 -08:00
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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: