I've been asked to do some research into institutions, schools, businesses, or any other groups that have had a widespread distribution on BOINC projects on their computers. If anybody here has any information on this, I would like to know what your experiences have been, what the impact has been on network bandwidth usage, the amount of support you have had to give, and so on. Any references to articles or people I could contact would also be appreciate. TIA.

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> I've been asked to do some research into institutions, schools, businesses, or
> any other groups that have had a widespread distribution on BOINC projects on
> their computers. If anybody here has any information on this, I would like to
> know what your experiences have been, what the impact has been on network
> bandwidth usage, the amount of support you have had to give, and so on. Any
> references to articles or people I could contact would also be appreciate.
> TIA.

I would be VERY interested in what you find out. Depending on the results I'd like to make a pitch to corporate to allow BOINC installation on a "pilot" set of computers within our division.

I manually installed (from a memory stick with the account files already defined) BOINC on about 10 computers during a project overseas. A couple of the programmers complained about it running while they were working (dev on a big slow application). I set those to "only work after 5 min of inactivity" and to "unload from memory". That seemed to resolve their concerns.

Initially I'd spend about 30min a day running around checking all of them (not required if set up with VPN or using newer 4.2x versions and a remotehost.cfg file). Once running OK, the didn't require any maint except when network guys decided to only give selected access to the outside world :-(

I think there are some folks out here who have set up some sort of command line or service version running in their shops... hopefully they can provide some details. Please let me know if you come up with some good info (email me sguenter@austin.rr.com).

Thanks and good luck, Skip

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