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| This page intends to describe the usage of BOINC on Fedora 7 and higher.
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| = What is BOINC =
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| The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-
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| source software platform which supports distributed computing, primarily in
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| the form of "volunteer" computing and "desktop Grid" computing. It is well
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| suited for problems which are often described as "trivially parallel". BOINC
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| is the underlying software used by projects such as SETI@home, Einstein@Home,
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| ClimatePrediciton.net, the World Community Grid, and many other distributed
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| computing projects.
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| = Related packages =
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| As far only the client side of BOINC is packaged.
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| * '''boinc-client''' Core client needed for running BOINC
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| * '''boinc-manager''' GUI for managing BOINC
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| * '''boinc-client-devel''' Development subpackage
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| * '''boinc-client-debuginfo''' Debuginfo subpackage
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| = Using BOINC on Fedora =
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| 1. Install the package ''boinc-client'' and also ''boinc-manager'' if you want to control BOINC via the GUI.
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| 2. Start the boinc daemon:
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| <pre style="margin-left: 50px">service boinc-client start</pre>
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| :You should see the following output:
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| <pre style="margin-left: 50px">
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| The BOINC client requires initialization. [WARNING]
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| Starting BOINC client as a daemon: [ OK ]
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| </pre>
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| :The WARNING is displayed because BOINC is not attached to any project.
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| <div style="margin-left: 50px">{{ Template:message/warning | Always use the ''service boinc-client start/stop'' command or BOINC Manager to start/stop BOINC daemon. Do '''NOT''' run boinc_client directly.
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| }}</div>
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| 3. Choose a project to attach:
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| :3.1. Using GUI - BOINC Manager: Choose Advanced -> Select computer from the menu. Type "localhost" as host name and password which is stored in ''/var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg''.
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| :3.2. Using CLI: type ''man boinc_cmd'' for details.
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| {{ Template:message/note | If you want to set an empty password for BOINC, just paste '''only''' a newline into ''/var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg''
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| 4. Consider starting BOINC automatically. To achieve this, either type:
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| /sbin/chkconfig boinc-client on </pre> as root or setup the same using the GUI (system-config-services).
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| For more details, please refer to the manual pages: '''boinc''', '''boinc_client''', '''boincmgr''', '''boinc_cmd'''.
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| = Troubleshooting =
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| * '''BOINC doesn't find a network connection after bootup although it is available'''
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| Most probably this is caused by the fact that BOINC starts before NetworkManager is ready. This shouldn't normally occur but can be caused by e.g. slow DHCP response. Currently BOINC cannot use network connections which appear after its start. Its a know bug and it will be hopefully fixed in BOINC 6.4
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| As a workaround, you can try adding "NETWORKWAIT=yes" to /etc/sysconfig/network and startup will block for 10 seconds or until a
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| network connection is up, whichever is sooner.
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