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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a middleware system for volunteer and Grid computing

BOINC was developed at University of California, Berkeley. Originally developed to support the SETI@home project, BOINC is now an open source system for distributed application platforms. It can be useful in various areas like mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics, where there is a necessity for enormous computing power. The intent of BOINC is to make it possible for researchers to tap into the enormous processing power of personal computers around the world.

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Any experience programming for BOINC?

I am attracted by BOINC for a little project of mine. I heard of BOINC but not read much about how it works, mostly because I am focusing on other priorities right now. What I would like to know is if any of you actually tried to program for BOINC…
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Real world example of Apache Helix, Zookeeper, Mesos and Erlang?

I am new in Apache ZooKeeper : ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. Apache Mesos : Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that…
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What does the parameter type void*& mean and what's its use?

I'm looking through an API written in C++ and I'm confused as to what the following parameter type means: void*& data Does that mean the user would pass in a reference to a void pointer? If that's true, what's the point? I mean void* is already…
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BOINC: Is there an easy example how to code a programm for it and how to implement it into their client/server system?

I did a numeric method as my diploma thesis and coded it in java. It needs a lot of computational time when adequately executed. So I looked for an alternative and found BOINC. Unfortunately I didn't have time for doing my method in BOINC, because…
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Running a Python Application on BOINC

I am currently in the process of setting up my first BOINC project and have configured the server and site to the point where the next step is my application. I have no experience in C programming but I know the python language to a level I feel…
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Boinc server does not send work

I am new to boinc server and I am running into issues while following this guide to configure the uppercase application. https://wiki.debian.org/BOINC/ServerGuide/WorkUnitGeneration It appears everything is running normal as the status page shows…
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Could not find the main class: SortAlgorithms

I have this Java class: public class SortAlgorithms { public static void main(String... args) { String out = ""; int vec1[] = readFile(args[0]); out = out + write(vec1); out = out + "=== INSERTION SORT ===\n"; …
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How parallelize existing executable?

In the lab we have a piece of software that is used for MRI analysis, which involves a lot of data crunching. Is there a way to redistribute the load generated by the program across multiple computers/GPUs without editing the program itself?
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Uppercase example. Computation Error: Output file for the task is absent

I am using the uppercase example from the BOINC samples in order to build BOINC app for android. I have setup my server using this tutorial, and I am following this tutorial to build the BOINC app for android. What have I done so far? Built the…
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Force full (100%) CPU utilization on BOINC via boinccmd line utility

I'm running a cloud instance of BOINC and am able to interact with it only via boinccmd over SSH, but I am only seeing CPU utilization remain at 10%. Resources online for boinccmd don't detail how to set CPU limits. Can anyone assist?
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BOINC on internal network

Is it possible to have a BOINC server and cluster operating with no connection to the internet? If so, then how would the clients find the application on my server?
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BOINC: Run several tasks in each time, ubuntu/debian

I've setted a BOINC on my Ubuntu 12.04 Server, but it runs only 1 task at the same time. How to set limit of tasks, running in each time? Thanks
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If you are compiling for a jailbroken iPhone, what core should you target? Specifically with an iPhone 4s

If you are compiling for a jailbroken iPhone, what core needs to be targetted? Specifically with an iPhone 4s. I assume that compiling against the Cortex-A9 would be safe, but would love to hear any thoughts on this. I'm looking to compile BOINC…
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How to adaptively adjust performance to CPU usage?

there. I don't even know if this question makes sense, however: how do BOINC-based applications adapt their performance so that they only use "free" CPU, without affecting the execution of user's applications? Thank you, Tunnuz
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Python - Request GZ file and Parsing XML

I started learning Python a few days ago in order to build a basic site in order to compile some statistics from BOINC projects eg SETI@home etc. Basically the site does: Download gz files Uncompress gz files into xml files Build xml info into…
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