User manual
From BOINC
BOINC lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. To get started:
- Choose projects or, if you run several projects, try using an account manager
- Download and run BOINC software
- Enter your account information.
General information
Running BOINC: basic
- Installing and uninstalling BOINC
- Choosing and joining projects
- The BOINC Manager
- The BOINC screensaver
- Account managers
- Preferences
- Troubleshooting
- Help
Running BOINC: advanced
- Client configuration
- Computing with a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
- OpenCL for CPU
- Virtual computing with VirtualBox
- Controlling BOINC remotely
- The boinccmd command-line tool
- Build your own applications ("anonymous platform" system)
- Add-on software
- Using BOINC with modem, ISDN and VPN connections
- Installing BOINC on EC2
Mass deployment of the BOINC client
- Creating custom installers
- Initialization files
- Weak account keys
- Running BOINC as backfill in HTCondor pools