Consider adding bundle "BOINC"

jurobystricky commented 5 years ago

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open- source software platform which supports distributed computing, primarily in the form of "volunteer" computing and "desktop Grid" computing. It is well suited for problems which are often described as "trivially parallel". BOINC is the underlying software used by projects such as SETI@home, Einstein@Home, ClimatePrediciton.net, the World Community Grid, and many other distributed computing projects.

(It is open source GPL/LGPL)

Describe alternatives you've considered I have managed to build and run boinc package from sources on CLR. (https://github.com/BOINC/boinc.git)

(It is worth mentioning it needs wxWidgets libraries, which I had to build on CLR as well. This should be probably a separate enhancement request. It is also an open source project. These libraries are popular with apps that try to keep the same look/feel on Windows and Linux).

Additional context This is the top app, allowing loading and running many "client-apps" which will allow your computer to participate in one or more BOINC projects, using your spare computer time to search for cures for diseases, model protein folding, study global warming, discover sources of gravitational waves, and many other types of scientific and mathematical research. It is possible to run the projects via CMD line only, or via a GUI app (boinc-manager), hence both should be included.

(I tested this with SETI@home)

The BOINC package(s) are commonly distributed by other Linux vendors (Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora)

nesiusra commented 5 years ago

@bwarden - willing to take a swing at this? looks like it builds/runs on Clear already.

bwarden commented 5 years ago

I've added wxWindows successfully. Right now, I'm trying to debug the boinc build, specifically libboinc_zip.

bwarden commented 5 years ago

Looking at this fresh today, though, I see that I've been trying to build 1.0.4, which may not be ready. I'll try 1.0.3.

bwarden commented 5 years ago

Same problem with 1.0.3. Digging in.

joelpierredupont commented 5 years ago

I am trying to install boinc again on my clr too.

1 years+ 2 month i have done one CLR install but it very hard for me ...

I have install my CLR again today.

Hope BOINC can be on a bundle for helping science !

THX

I have do lot of https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ for cancer + stomac.

joelpierredupont commented 5 years ago

Who i can install wxWidgets ?? i try but i cannot do this :s

bwarden commented 5 years ago

Who i can install wxWidgets ?? i try but i cannot do this :s

wxWidgets is not packaged separately. I'm working on the packaging for boinc-client and wxWidgets now, and once they're in good shape, we'll add them to a bundle.

bwarden commented 5 years ago

I'm tying up a few loose ends on the implementation, but hoping to have a bundle available in a build this week.

joelpierredupont commented 5 years ago

Greats ! I hope that the performance of this implementation will be as good as clear linux, i believe in the developers of CLR like you =).

bwarden commented 5 years ago

Bundle boinc-client should be available within the next release or two of Clear Linux.

The structure of the BOINC project is to provide pre-compiled binaries for the client to execute. As a result, we're not completely in control of the performance, but it will be interesting to see.

joelpierredupont commented 5 years ago

Hi Clr Devs.

Some performance on my computer.

My computer (i5-8600K 6 cores / 4Go RAM)

I dont understand why mb different work unit😞

BOINC Project provide source on github https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC#Building_from_Source

If someone can provide stats too, thx =)

bwarden commented 5 years ago

Unfortunately, as I mentioned, even though we build the BOINC client itself from source, with optimizations, this client merely downloads pre-compiled compute binaries directly from the projects you choose to participate in. We have no control over the performance of those.

KwisatzJim commented 5 years ago

fresh install of Clear Linux with all updates, installed BOINC, ran BOINC Manager and it says "Retrieving current status" for a couple minutes then gets the error "The BOINC clint has exited unexpectedly 3 times within the last 3 minutes. Would you like to restart it again?"

jurobystricky commented 5 years ago

Did you do:

$ sudo usermod -a -G boinc ${USER}

https://community.clearlinux.org/t/boinc-client-not-connecting/1116/4

KwisatzJim commented 5 years ago

progress! that got me to the choose project screen, but the screen doesn't show any projects.

bwarden commented 5 years ago

@thejim The original request here has been resolved and closed. Please do not add comments.

For bugs, please open a new issue (I moved your report to #1240). For discussion or help, please use our forum, either adding to the thread pointed out by @jurobystricky, or by opening a new thread.

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Consider adding bundle "BOINC" #439