BOINC projects, their applications and Debian
Binaries provided by the Debian community
package name |
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regular platforms |
non-official ports |
SETI |
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all except hppa,m68k,powerpcpse |
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SETI beta |
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needs new maintainer |
To run the Debian-provided binary instead of the ones provided by the project:
install with apt-get install packagename
preform "update" of the project with the boinc-manager, do not perform a "reset".
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.
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amd64 |
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armel |
hppa |
hurd-i368 |
i386 |
ia64 |
kfreebsd-amd64 |
kfreebsd-i386 |
m68k |
mips |
mipsel |
powerpc |
ppc64 |
s390 |
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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 |
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armel |
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi |
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hppa |
hppa-unknown-linux-gnu |
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hurd-i386 |
i486-pc-gnu |
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i386 |
i686-pc-linux-gnu |
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ia64 |
ia64-linux-gnu |
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kfreebsd-amd64 |
x86_64-pc-kfreebsd-gnu |
i686-pc-kfreebsd-gnu |
kfreebsd-i386 |
i686-pc-kfreebsd-gnu |
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m68k |
m68k-unknown-linux-gnu |
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mips |
mips-unknown-linux-gnu |
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mipsel |
mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu |
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powerpc |
powerpc-linux-gnu |
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s390 |
s390-ibm-linux-gnu |
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sparc |
sparc-sun-linux-gnu |
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