BOINC Software
From Unofficial BOINC Wiki
Contents |
[edit] General
A Distributed Computing system that attempts to solve the need of universities and other not-for-profit organizations that have a requirement to perform intense mathematical modeling on limited funding. By providing a software support program in the form of a system into which computational modules can be inserted as a "Science Application". Most of the important "housekeeping" chores are provided by one single software system that can be maintained, extended, modified, and just made more plain fun to be around.
BOINC Software is present on both the Server-Side and Client-Side of the BOINC System.
BOINC Server Software Components (Summary)
- The BOINC Server Software includes
- Source code for the BOINC Server-Side Daemon Programs
- Servers
- Scripts
- Tools
- Commercial Licensed programs
- Open Source Applications
- etc.
BOINC Client Software Components
- These components of the BOINC Client Software are installed directly on the Participants computer.
- BOINC Daemon - on Linux, Solaris Operating Environment, and Apple Macintosh OS-X computers it is a "true" UNIX-style Daemon, on Microsoft Windows® it is a service.
- BOINC Manager - the Graphical User Interface
- BOINC Screen Saver - If the OS supports it.
- These components of the BOINC Client Software are either infered or downloaded seperately.
- BOINC Client API - The interface between the BOINC Client Software and the Science Application
- Science Applications - varies depending on what BOINC Projects the Participant has joined.
