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BOINC / boinc

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
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Create mass install solution and cookbook #5558

Open davidpanderson opened 7 months ago

davidpanderson commented 7 months ago

We should create a solution for easily installing the BOINC client (pre-attached to a project or account manager) on a large number (e.g. hundreds) of computers.

On Windows for sure; possibly on Linux or Mac as well.

And create a cookbook for this.

CharlieFenton commented 7 months ago

There is already a remote installation method for one computer at a time available for the Mac, as referenced in issue #5551 and described here. (I don't know if a similar facility already exists for Windows or Linux.) This might be automated for multiple computers by using a shell script.

A small program (invoked by the same script) could then attach each computer to a project or account manager by sending the appropriate RPCs to the computer. It might not even require a new program if the same shell script invokes boinccmd with the appropriate arguments.