water cooler :: Distributed Computing?

Well I've got BOINC up and running now. For newbies like me wondering how, here's the steps:

1) Go to BOINC download page. Right click Linux release and click "Save Link As". When finished, click Save. Close window. (Note: adjusting following file name based on version as needed)

2) Double click XTerminal.

3) Type the following lines, enter after each line (noting different filename if version different):

mv boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh /opt/
cd /opt
chmod +x boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
./boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
rm boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
cd BOINC/
run_manager

...and now the BOINC manager should come up and you'll know where you're at.

This has got to be the way to go on older machines being used as a BOINC farm... good luck...

Here's something I noticed...

Same computer running windows and boinc had benchmarks of 1402/1976.

Same computer running DSL and boinc had benchmarks of 689/1865.

It's a Pentium 4 2.8ghz

Time per workunit is going to look similar if not better with DSL though.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

My apologies..

Seems I left a space in my line of instruction.. corrected

Glad you got it to work anyway.

I'll post up my stats from my boxen from home tonite,
and see how they compare..

73
ke4nt

original here.