BOINC: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 11:19, 17 May 2024

BOINC lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. To install and enable BOINC on NixOS, add this to your configuration.nix:

services.boinc.enable = true;
services.boinc.extraEnvPackages = [ pkgs.libglvnd pkgs.brotli ]; #Rosetta Beta 6.05 needs libGL.so.1 and libbrotlidec.so.1

Then to open the BOINC Manager, you can run the command boincmgr.

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-BOINC lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. To install BOINC on NixOS, Add this to your configuration.nix:
+[http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. To install and enable BOINC on NixOS, add this to your <code>configuration.nix</code>:
-<syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
+<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
-services.boinc = {
+services.boinc.enable = true;
-  enable = true;
+services.boinc.extraEnvPackages = [ pkgs.libglvnd pkgs.brotli ]; #Rosetta Beta 6.05 needs libGL.so.1 and libbrotlidec.so.1
-  dataDir = "/var/lib/boinc";    # default location where data is stored
+</syntaxhighlight>
-};
-</syntaxHighlight>
-Then to open the BOINC Manager, you can run the command <code>boincmgr</code>.
+Then to open the [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_Manager BOINC Manager], you can run the command <code>boincmgr</code>.
+[[Category:Applications]]