BOINC projects, their applications and Debian

Binaries provided by the Debian community

package name

project

regular platforms

non-official ports

boinc-app-seti

SETI

all

all except hppa,m68k,powerpcpse

SETI beta

boinc-app-milkyway

needs new maintainer

To run the Debian-provided binary instead of the ones provided by the project:

You may decide not to perform the update before all tasks of that project have completed.

SETI

If not running the boinc manager on the machine, to perform an update of the already running official SETI client, perform

  $ boinccmd --project setiathome.berkeley.edu update

If it is instead the first time that SETI is installed, run

  $ boinccmd --lookup_account setiathome.berkeley.edu myemailaddress mypassword
  status: Success
  poll status: operation in progress
  poll status: operation in progress
  poll status: operation in progress
  account key: 73c06fcd129381dc1a93620d128943a019b072
  $ boinccmd --project_attach setiathome.berkeley.edu 73c06fcd129381dc1a93620d128943a019b072

There are no bulletproof benchmarks, yet, but it seems like the Debian packages gain a bit of efficiency with their graphics disabled at compile time, which may save considerable I/O. The Debian-performed workunits are all validated correctly and when comparing with the compute time of other tasks of the same workunit, then they are very competitive.

Binaries provided by the projects themselves

This page gives an overview of the most popular BOINC projects and which Debian architectures they support. Supporting an architecture in this context means that a BOINC project provides an application whose platform name matches the platform name of the given architecture. The list of projects is taken from BOINCstats.com.

alpha

amd64

arm

armel

hppa

hurd-i368

i386

ia64

kfreebsd-amd64

kfreebsd-i386

m68k

mips

mipsel

powerpc

ppc64

s390

sparc

ABC@home

x

x

APS@Home

x

x

BBC Climate Change

BOINC alpha test

x

BRaTS@Home

x

BURP

x

Chess960@Home

Cosmology@Home

x

x

DepSpid

Docking@Home

Einstein@Home

x

x

Enigma@Home

x

Eternity2.net

Gerasim@Home

HashClash

Hydrogen@Home

x

Intelligence Realm

x

Leiden Classical

x

x

LHC@home

malaricontrol.net

x

x

MilkyWay@home

x

x

NanoHive@Home

NQueens Project

x

x

Pirates@Home

Predictor@Home

x

x

PrimeGrid

x

x

PS3GRID

x

Project Neuron

POEM@HOME

x

QMC@HOME

x

x

RALPH@home

x

x

Rectilinear Crossing No.

RenderFarm@Home

RND@home

Rosetta@home

x

x

SciLINC

Seasonal Attribution

x

SETI@home

x

x

SETI@home Beta

x

x

SHA-1 Collision Search

x

x

SIMAP

x

x

Spinhenge@home

Sudoku project

x

x

Superlink@Technion

SZTAKI Desktop Grid

x

TANPAKU

x

x

The Lattice Project

TMRL DRTG

TSP

x

x

uFluids

vtu@home

x

WEP-M+2 Project

x

x

XtremLab

yoyo@home

x

x

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0

22

0

0

0

0

32

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

last modified 26.08.2008 09:16:58 UTC

This table was created by supported_platforms.php which uses web RPCs (apps.php) to retrieve the list of supported platforms for the projects above. Note that this overview may not be 100% accurate because the used web RPC may not be available on all projects.

Platform names

For an explanation what a platform means in the BOINC context please read http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BoincPlatforms. The tables below map each Debian architecture to the BOINC platform that was picked up by the configure script and that is hardcoded into the client of the specified BOINC package revision. For the curious, these platforms can be extracted from the build logs (search for "checking boinc platform..."; there is also a script to extract them automatically). Cells with a blue background indicate official BOINC platforms.

architecture

platform name

alternate platform

alpha

alpha-hp-linux-gnu

alpha-unknown-linux-gnu

amd64

x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

i686-pc-linux-gnu

arm

arm-unknown-linux-gnu

armel

arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi

hppa

hppa-unknown-linux-gnu

hurd-i386

i486-pc-gnu

i386

i686-pc-linux-gnu

ia64

ia64-linux-gnu

kfreebsd-amd64

x86_64-pc-kfreebsd-gnu

i686-pc-kfreebsd-gnu

kfreebsd-i386

i686-pc-kfreebsd-gnu

m68k

m68k-unknown-linux-gnu

mips

mips-unknown-linux-gnu

mipsel

mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu

powerpc

powerpc-linux-gnu

s390

s390-ibm-linux-gnu

sparc

sparc-sun-linux-gnu