BOINC Technical Documentation

Last modified: 08 January 2023 BOINC -- the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing -- is the software behind a number of large volunteer-based distributed computing projects, such as SETI@home, Einstein@Home, ClimatePrediction.Net and others.

The notes listed below are technical supplements to the primary technical documentation, which you can find in the BOINC Trac wiki.

These notes are not for volunteers who want to contribute time on their computers to BOINC projects, except for those few whow are interested in the technical details of how BOINC works, or who want to build their own version of the BOINC client from source code. If you want to learn more about how to run the BOINC client on your computer and how to participate in projects that use BOINC, then visit the main BOINC web site at U.C. Berkeley, at http://boinc.berkeley.edu.

BOINC Client Software

• Installing and Running the BOINC client on Unix
• Enabling Graphics for the BOINC daemon on Linux (outdated as of BOINC v6)

Creating a BOINC Project

• Creating and Configuring a BOINC Project -- The basic steps required to set up your own BOINC project.
• Sample BOINC web server configuration
• Sample BOINC configuration file config.xml
  (You may need to right-click to download if your browser does not render it well).
• Adding and Updating BOINC applications
• Log Rotation for the project server

Creating BOINC Applications

• How to create BOINC Applications

• Building BOINC and BOINC Applications on Linux
• Building BOINC applications on Windows
• Building BOINC and BOINC applications on MacOS X

Miscellaneous

• BOINC build regression script - If you have your build environment setup and working on Linux or Mac you can verify that everything is working well using this script.
• Creating an Apple Disk Image to Distribute BOINC

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Last modified: 08 January 2023