BOINC Developers' Notes

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Here are a few tips and suggestions on how to use BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, based on our recent experiences.

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Last modified: 28 October 2004

Notes

• Building BOINC on Red Hat 7.x
• Hello, World -- the simplest BOINC program

• Always remember that the Major version number of your application must match the Major version number of the BOINC Work Manager (BOINC core).

• Yello, World -- the simplest graphics program for BOINC
• The "boinclet" - graphics API test stand
• Running the BOINC command line client under Unix
• The Jack LaLanne program - an API Exerciser
• Sample BOINC web server configuration - httpd.conf excerpts

TO DO:

• OpenGL cube demo -- simple nontrivial BOINC graphics program
• Roger - graphics program for Talk Like a Pirate Day
• Running BOINC command line client on a Mac
• Notes on Libraries on MS Windows...(esp. graphics)

Links

• GLUT source code for Windows 32 (from Nate Robins)
• freeglut from sourceforge

Please send corrections or suggestions for improvement to

myers@vassar.edu

http:// noether.vassar.edu /~myers/help/boinc/index.html

Last modified: 28 October 2004