[Debian Wiki] Update of "BOINC" by GeoffSimmons

Thu Sep 9 03:16:36 UTC 2010

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http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC?action=diff&rev1=131&rev2=132

  #pragma section-numbers 2
  #pragma keywords BOINC, Grid Computing, Volunteer Computing, Open Source, Debian
  #pragma description Accompaning Wiki-page for users and developers of the Debian package of BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
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  = BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing =
  
- || {{http://boinc.berkeley.edu/logo/www_logo.gif}} ||<style="background-color: #FFF0F0;"> BOINC comes as an official part of Debian. Just install the [[http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client|boinc-client]] and [[http://packages.debian.org/boinc-manager|boinc-manager]] packages. Then start the `boincmgr` application to join the project of your liking. <<BR>> <<BR>> The remainder of this page helps the maintainers of these packages to better organise themselves. It may serve the curiosity of the one or other casual visitor and possibly attracts more helping hands. Ignore it at first.||
+ || {{http://boinc.berkeley.edu/logo/www_logo.gif}} ||<style="background-color: #FFF0F0;"> BOINC comes as an official part of Debian. Just install the DebianPkg:boinc-client and DebianPkg:boinc-manager packages. Then start the `boincmgr` application to join the project of your liking. <<BR>> <<BR>> The remainder of this page helps the maintainers of these packages to better organise themselves. It may serve the curiosity of the one or other casual visitor and possibly attracts more helping hands. Ignore it at first.||
  
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  <<Anchor(Introduction)>>
  == Introduction ==
  
- This page accompanies an [[Alioth]] [[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-boinc/|project of the same name]] on the creation of respective [[DebianPackage]]s. A detailed introduction to [[http://boinc.berkeley.edu/|BOINC]] itself is available on the wiki pages of [[http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=BOINC_FAQ:_Introduction_To_BOINC|boinc-wiki.ath.cx]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOINC|en.wikipedia.org]]. In short, BOINC provides an infrastructure for distributed computing that is already applied for various scientific problems. Hence, everybody can do something beneficial to the world at large while one's computer is not in use.
+ This page accompanies an [[Alioth]] [[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-boinc/|project of the same name]] on the creation of respective [[DebianPackage]]s. A detailed introduction to [[http://boinc.berkeley.edu/|BOINC]] itself is available on the wiki pages of [[http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=BOINC_FAQ:_Introduction_To_BOINC|boinc-wiki.ath.cx]] and [[WikiPedia:Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing|en.wikipedia.org]]. In short, BOINC provides an infrastructure for distributed computing that is already applied for various scientific problems. Hence, everybody can do something beneficial to the world at large while one's computer is not in use.
  
  === Benefits of Debian for BOINC ===
  
  The main criticism of the BOINC project is that it would be difficult to install. Well, to install packages in [[Debian]] is not difficult and we give explicit instructions for BOINC below. The motivation to create packages for this worthwhile cause requires no further explanation, maybe except for the following hint: Debian is special for its support of many different architectures, which is only sustainable because of an automated compilation of novel packages. Thus, the provision of BOINC on Debian significantly contributes to the acceptance of the project in all these non-mainstream architectures.
  
- Some users of Debian install the package [[popularity-contest]]. It sends anonymous statistics on package usage to a [[http://popcon.debian.org|dedicated site]]. Follow [[http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=boinc]] for an overview on the installation rates of boinc-associated packages in Debian. You will find the boinc packages to have a much steeper curve than most regular packages, i.e., these are installed more frequently than the number of Debian users grows. And, we are competing nicely with high-flying packages like the statistics environment R. The latest numbers are retrievable also in the shell:
+ Some users of Debian install the package DebianPkg:popularity-contest. It sends anonymous statistics on package usage to a [[http://popcon.debian.org|dedicated site]]. Follow [[http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=boinc]] for an overview on the installation rates of boinc-associated packages in Debian. You will find the boinc packages to have a much steeper curve than most regular packages, i.e., these are installed more frequently than the number of Debian users grows. And, we are competing nicely with high-flying packages like the statistics environment R. The latest numbers are retrievable also in the shell:
  {{{
  wget -O - http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_vote.gz 2> /dev/null | gunzip | egrep 'boinc'
  wget -O - http://popcon.debian.org/by_vote.gz 2> /dev/null | gunzip | egrep 'boinc'
  }}}
  
- Another peculiarity of Debian is the option to create dedicated chroot environments, which may be essential for security-sensitive administrators. Debian's [[debootstrap]] tool creates such easily, also in subdirectories of other Linux distributions. Together with the dynamic package management, this renders Debian a prime candidate for the creation of virtual hosts arbitrary Linux distributions or - maybe more interestingly - on Windows machines running [[Xen]], [[coLinux]], [[VirtualBox]] or [[VMware]].
+ Another peculiarity of Debian is the option to create dedicated chroot environments, which may be essential for security-sensitive administrators. Debian's [[Debootstrap|debootstrap]] tool creates such easily, also in subdirectories of other Linux distributions. Together with the dynamic package management, this renders Debian a prime candidate for the creation of virtual hosts arbitrary Linux distributions or - maybe more interestingly - on Windows machines running [[Xen]], coLinux, [[VirtualBox]] or [[VMware]].
- http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client
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  Furthermore, the frequently distributed [[LiveCD]]s of Debian may bring functional BOINC installations to the masses.
  
  === Once you decide to prepare your very own BOINC project... ===
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  === Installation of binary packages ===
  
- The BOINC packages are part of the Debian main archive since DebianEtch (see: [[http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client|boinc-client]], [[http://packages.debian.org/boinc-dev|boinc-dev]], [[http://packages.debian.org/boinc-manager|boinc-manager]]). [[Backports]] of these packages for DebianSarge are on http://backports.org. To install BOINC on your computer update your package index files and install the `boinc-client` and `boinc-manager` packages:
+ The BOINC packages are part of the Debian main archive since DebianEtch (see: DebianPkg:boinc-client, DebianPkg:boinc-dev, DebianPkg:boinc-manager). To install BOINC on your computer update your package index files and install the `boinc-client` and `boinc-manager` packages:
  {{{
  apt-get update
  apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager

