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Please help - being a bit of a computer no brain, what is BOINC and do i have it or need it. Signed up to WCG after the demise of grid org and have been reading the posts and am mystified about ths BOINC!
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cargod01
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Please help - being a bit of a computer no brain, what is BOINC and do i have it or need it. Signed up to WCG after the demise of grid org and have been reading the posts and am mystified about ths BOINC! It actually stands for "Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing " It is a client to run any of several projects. Because of it's versatility, it can be used for more than one project and is available for operating systems other than Windows.     |
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Hi pikkumoo,
If you look at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/ms/viewDownloadBoinc.do?newMember=false you will see that you can download United Devices for Windows ® if you accept the default but you can also download 3 other choices. All 3 are actually BOINC, just for different platforms. The UD client is the easiest to install, but using BOINC (which can also be done from the main BOINC site at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php) lets you run projects from other organizations - - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php We urge people who enjoy using their computer to experiment with BOINC. The installation is only slightly more complicated than that for UD, if you use the installation package fromm the WCG, but it gives you many more options to explore. It is easy to move from UD to BOINC: http://www.wcgwiki.org/en/boinc/migration.cfm Lawrence |
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