BOINC farm questions

[jasong42]

I haven't actually run BOINC a whole heck of a lot(running Riesel Sieve until at least the 10th).

Here's my question: How would one go about running a BOINC farm? Is it even made for a multi-computer setup? I've never actually had a farm, it's more of a starry-eyed "In the future" sort of thing. I'm simply trying to be proactive.

 

[Rattledagger]

In v4.2x you can customize the installer, and deploy the installation using active directory. For more info, see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/win_install.php


If you on the other hand only has a small home-farm or something, the easiest is to manually install BOINC as service on all computers, attach to thatever project you wants to on one computer, and just copy account_project.xml to the other computers and re-start the client.

Oh, and to make it easy to monitor all machines from one computer, also make a small file called remote_hosts.cfg and put in the BOINC-directory. In this text-file, you can put one computer or ip-address on each line, and this should be which computer(s) you'll use to control BOINC from.

 

[lane42]

I just use an 8 port switch for my 7 home computers to the cable modem, Load BOINC, set and forget, well allmost

I also sneakernet 2 machines at work..

 

[networkman]

Same here.. only about twice as many at my place.