Hello

On one of my computers, a quite old one, I run a boot CD that uses a Linux distro. It is called "NotFreds Diskless Folding". It starts up, reads the config file and starts running Folding@Home. I can monitor this from a LAN computer.

http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/

Is there such a thing for BOINC?

Op5 wrote:

Hello
Is there such a thing for BOINC?

No, but it's a good idea.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

I've used / created a few solutions for something like this.

One suggestion which uses Windows is BOINCpe. From what I've seen, it works rather well, especially when configured with the included BOINC Persistency Service. If you don't want to configure persistency, there may be a way to prevent the client from continually creating a new host on the project, but any interrupted workunits will certainly be lost.

I've also created Linux boot CDs which essentially were a command-line environment, set to mount an NFS filesystem with workunits and configuration files on boot. It was a bit unwieldy, and I could probably do a better job of it these days, but it was an interesting experiment to run. :) I based my boot CDs off Minibuntu 7.10 (now renamed Ubuntu Mini Remix) and BOINC 5.8.16, but would update that these days to UMR 8.04 and BOINC 5.10.45, at the very least.

So it certainly can be done, but nobody seems to have released such work publicly.

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Hello

On one of my computers, a quite old one, I run a boot CD that uses a Linux distro. It is called "NotFreds Diskless Folding". It starts up, reads the config file and starts running Folding@Home. I can monitor this from a LAN computer.

http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/

Is there such a thing for BOINC?

There is this message thread from Dotsch over in the Seti message boards regarding a Linux distro he is working on.

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MarkJ

Today I have released Dotsch/UX 1.0. - Dotsch/UX is a Linux distribution for BOINC which easily installs and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and from diskless clients and also has some interfaces to setup the diskless server and the clients automatically.

For more informations have a look at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX

Some seeding peers for the Dotsch/UX torrent would be great. You can easy install a client like rtorrent even on a crunching machine, it is now in the ubuntu repositories.