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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:
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;
  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 BOINC Manager, you can run the command <code>boincmgr</code>.

Revision as of 03:52, 17 July 2023

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;


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