The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open-source platform used for distributed computing projects, including the well-known SETI@home and Rosetta@home.
Questions tagged [boinc]
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BOINC just will not work
I have the issue of "Unable to connect to core client" that others have had in the past and their solutions are not working.
I do not have a firewall running.
The suggestion here has already been carried out by the install…

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Boinc won't connect to the client
I tried to use my computer to distributed computing projects World Community Grid/Outsmart Ebola Together and World Community Grid/FightAIDS@Home. It worked nicely but yesterday the Boinc started to say just:
Not connected to a client.
Does anyone…

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BOINC Manager Compute Preferences blank
Running Ubuntu 22.10, Mate desktop environment. I installed boinc-client and boinc-manager via apt. All works fine in this pre-release version of BOINC (7.20.2+dfsg), except, when I open the Computing Preferences, I get a blank dialog box, with only…

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How To Set Up BOINC on Ubuntu
So, I got the idea to take an old PC with no OS and turn it into a dedicated BOINC machine. To save on costs, I decided to use Ubuntu 18.04 for the OS. I never used it before, so challenge accepted.
Below is the installation process I used. The…
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libcurl error when running Boinc
I downloaded the latest versione of Boinc x64. When I run the manager, there is an error
./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Giulio Jiang
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How to install BOINC
This machine is normally a BOINC cruncher, I've downloaded the installer, boinc_7.4.42_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh, it would appear I have downloaded it 4 times actually. How do I run it? I've tried to click or double click it, which opened another…

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