BOINC, its not just SETI 2

SunRedRX7 · 03-04-06, 06:32 AM

From the thread that started this forum I learned something.

Not many people know what BOINC is, or if they do, they just think its the 2nd version of the SETI program.

So heres what BOINC is. BOINC stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. BOINC itself isn't a distributed computing project, but rather a platform for DCs to run on.

Basicly what that means is you install BOINC, then can use BOINC to connect to different projects, you can see a list in the link above of some of the projects. The BOINC manager program takes care of the downloading of applications and work units returning of work for all your projects that you may attach to.

One of the advantages of BOINC is that you can run more then one project and setup resource shares for how much time you want to donate to each project. So maybe you do want to help the SETI team search for aliens, but maybe your also interested in doing some Protein folding, or long term climate prediction? Well now you can.

Some of us are big time numbers peoples, we like to see our credits go up as we complete more and more work. So your thinking well if I join multiple projects my credits are all split up, this is another are where BOINC offers something cool. A total score amongst all the projects you've joined, as every project you join, as long as you use the same email address, will sync up a Cross project ID for you which can be used by stats sites to give you a total score. This same system also works for teams, as you'll notice for many of the other projects is an overclockers.com team.

So if you want to help out us BOINCers, theres a wide selection of choices for what interests you. If you have questions feel free to ask questions and I'll try and help you out as I can.

For a list of projects http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Unofficial BOINC Wiki! http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/inde...itle=Main_Page
BOINCstats.com - BOINC Statistics http://www.boincstats.com/

FemFolder · 03-08-06, 09:03 AM

I didn't know you guys had Boinc teams. Can you list which projects OCForums runs?

edit- I joined your team on these projects-
climate prediction
einstein
LHC
Predictor
Seti
Simap

and will join on Rosetta as soon as their website comes up.

SunRedRX7 · 03-08-06, 11:50 AM

You can check to see if we have a BOINC team by looking up the name "Overclockers.com", if we don't have a BOINC team for the project your interested in, we can make one.

Just make sure the name of the team is overclockers.com.

Hamm3r · 03-08-06, 01:04 PM

Welcome to the team FemFolder!

TollhouseFrank · 04-08-06, 10:18 PM

GUys... add a "How to install, run, and attach to a project" to this thread, and it'll be perfect

SunRedRX7 · 04-09-06, 12:02 PM

I'll see what I can do, works been hectic the last few months, but we managed to get ahead of ourselves enough where we have Good Friday off

tenchi86 · 04-09-06, 12:38 PM

Very good information here. Nice job.

rebturtle · 10-30-06, 01:06 AM

Here's a (partial) list of current Boinc projects and their corresponding Overclockers.com teams:

Rosetta@Home
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/te...php?teamid=230

BoincSIMAP
http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsim...php?teamid=435

ClimatePrediction.net
http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cp...php?teamid=471

Einstein@Home
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_di...php?teamid=202

LHC@Home
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/team_display.php?teamid=236

Predictor@Home
http://predictor.scripps.edu/team_display.php?teamid=10

QMC@Home
http://qah.uni-muenster.de/team_display.php?teamid=178

SETI@Home
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_...p?teamid=30199

SETI@Home Beta
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta...php?teamid=447

Spinhenge@Home
http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/team_display.php?teamid=234

Feel free to add on to this list.

sno.lcn · 10-30-06, 05:26 AM

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=469595

Karbon · 11-07-06, 08:50 PM

I really can't figure out how to get my BOINC working correctly. Right now I'm doing 2 projects on this computer - primegrid and climateprediction. I want primegrid to always have one of the cores (I have a p4 w/ HT) and climateprediction to have the other one.

On the resource share I have each one set to 50%, it's set for 2 cores, etc etc. Either BOINC is running 2 primegrid tasks or 2 climate predictions, I can't figure it out!

swhite4784 · 03-20-08, 04:28 PM

I run http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ through boinc

Adak · 03-21-08, 06:47 AM

@Karbon, perhaps BOINC doesn't know how to use a Hyperthreaded core, only an actual one?

eaglescouter · 03-24-08, 04:30 PM

Karbon: A 50% resource setting with two attached projects will result in roughly equal amounts of work for each project, but not necessarily one of each project at a time. The system will assign the work in order to reach your resource setting but may be 100% to a single project at any one time.

03-04-06, 06:32 AM	Thread Starter #1
SunRedRX7 Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Kenmore, NY	BOINC, its not just SETI 2 From the thread that started this forum I learned something. Not many people know what BOINC is, or if they do, they just think its the 2nd version of the SETI program. So heres what BOINC is. BOINC stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. BOINC itself isn't a distributed computing project, but rather a platform for DCs to run on. Basicly what that means is you install BOINC, then can use BOINC to connect to different projects, you can see a list in the link above of some of the projects. The BOINC manager program takes care of the downloading of applications and work units returning of work for all your projects that you may attach to. One of the advantages of BOINC is that you can run more then one project and setup resource shares for how much time you want to donate to each project. So maybe you do want to help the SETI team search for aliens, but maybe your also interested in doing some Protein folding, or long term climate prediction? Well now you can. Some of us are big time numbers peoples, we like to see our credits go up as we complete more and more work. So your thinking well if I join multiple projects my credits are all split up, this is another are where BOINC offers something cool. A total score amongst all the projects you've joined, as every project you join, as long as you use the same email address, will sync up a Cross project ID for you which can be used by stats sites to give you a total score. This same system also works for teams, as you'll notice for many of the other projects is an overclockers.com team. So if you want to help out us BOINCers, theres a wide selection of choices for what interests you. If you have questions feel free to ask questions and I'll try and help you out as I can. For a list of projects http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ Unofficial BOINC Wiki! http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/inde...itle=Main_Page BOINCstats.com - BOINC Statistics http://www.boincstats.com/ __________________ 7 DP Got a fast computer sitting around idle all day? PUT IT TO WORK! Member Of Overclockers.com's BOINC Teams SETI@home, Climate Prediction, Einstein@Home, Predictor@home, LHC@home Click here to visit The BOINC/SETI section of the forums Click here to visit The Team32 Folding section of the forums Heatware
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03-08-06, 09:03 AM	#2
FemFolder Member Join Date: Jun 2004	I didn't know you guys had Boinc teams. Can you list which projects OCForums runs? edit- I joined your team on these projects- climate prediction einstein LHC Predictor Seti Simap and will join on Rosetta as soon as their website comes up. Last edited by FemFolder; 03-08-06 at 09:27 AM.
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03-08-06, 11:50 AM	Thread Starter #3
SunRedRX7 Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Kenmore, NY	You can check to see if we have a BOINC team by looking up the name "Overclockers.com", if we don't have a BOINC team for the project your interested in, we can make one. Just make sure the name of the team is overclockers.com. __________________ 7 DP Got a fast computer sitting around idle all day? PUT IT TO WORK! Member Of Overclockers.com's BOINC Teams SETI@home, Climate Prediction, Einstein@Home, Predictor@home, LHC@home Click here to visit The BOINC/SETI section of the forums Click here to visit The Team32 Folding section of the forums Heatware
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04-09-06, 12:02 PM	Thread Starter #6
SunRedRX7 Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Kenmore, NY	I'll see what I can do, works been hectic the last few months, but we managed to get ahead of ourselves enough where we have Good Friday off __________________ 7 DP Got a fast computer sitting around idle all day? PUT IT TO WORK! Member Of Overclockers.com's BOINC Teams SETI@home, Climate Prediction, Einstein@Home, Predictor@home, LHC@home Click here to visit The BOINC/SETI section of the forums Click here to visit The Team32 Folding section of the forums Heatware
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04-09-06, 12:38 PM	#7
tenchi86 Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Smoky Mountains, NC	Very good information here. Nice job. __________________ "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." -Bernard Mannes Baruch Mobo: MSI Neo2-V CPU: 2.8a Prescott @ 3.2 PSU: Blue Storm 500 Watt GPU: Geforce 6600GT HS: Zalman 7000 Ram: Kingston HyperX 1024mb 3200
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10-30-06, 01:06 AM	#8
rebturtle Registered Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Kailua, HI	Here's a (partial) list of current Boinc projects and their corresponding Overclockers.com teams: Rosetta@Home http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/te...php?teamid=230 BoincSIMAP http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsim...php?teamid=435 ClimatePrediction.net http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cp...php?teamid=471 Einstein@Home http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_di...php?teamid=202 LHC@Home http://lhcathome.cern.ch/team_display.php?teamid=236 Predictor@Home http://predictor.scripps.edu/team_display.php?teamid=10 QMC@Home http://qah.uni-muenster.de/team_display.php?teamid=178 SETI@Home http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_...p?teamid=30199 SETI@Home Beta http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta...php?teamid=447 Spinhenge@Home http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/team_display.php?teamid=234 Feel free to add on to this list.
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10-30-06, 05:26 AM	#9
sno.lcn Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA	http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=469595
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11-07-06, 08:50 PM	#10
Karbon Member Join Date: Oct 2003	I really can't figure out how to get my BOINC working correctly. Right now I'm doing 2 projects on this computer - primegrid and climateprediction. I want primegrid to always have one of the cores (I have a p4 w/ HT) and climateprediction to have the other one. On the resource share I have each one set to 50%, it's set for 2 cores, etc etc. Either BOINC is running 2 primegrid tasks or 2 climate predictions, I can't figure it out! __________________ Please support our other teams! Start here
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03-20-08, 04:28 PM	#11
swhite4784 New Member Join Date: Mar 2008	I run http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ through boinc
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03-21-08, 06:47 AM	#12
Adak Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006	@Karbon, perhaps BOINC doesn't know how to use a Hyperthreaded core, only an actual one?
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03-24-08, 04:30 PM	#13
eaglescouter Frustrating Senior SETI Nut! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: CA- Not far from the Allen SETI array	Karbon: A 50% resource setting with two attached projects will result in roughly equal amounts of work for each project, but not necessarily one of each project at a time. The system will assign the work in order to reach your resource setting but may be 100% to a single project at any one time. __________________ #4 in the 20 Million SETI Club Top 4 Producer for BOINC Seti Many GHz of Seti Crunching Power! Number 18 Seti Classic Cruncher Member of the Phase Cooled 6Ghz Club [SG] Halo Custom Edition Clan Leader
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