Integrating BOINC with other grid software

• Researchers are CERN have set up a system where submitted jobs are sent either to a BOINC project or to a GRAM job manager. They developed two utilities, kill_wu and poll_wu, to support this. They are in the boinc/tools directory. Contact Christian Søttrup (chrulle at fatbat.dk) for more info.

• The ​Lattice project from the University of Maryland has developed a Grid system that integrates Globus, BOINC, and several other software components.

• The ​SuperLink project from Technion University developed a system that dynamically assigns jobs to a central server, a local cluster, the EGEE grid, or a BOINC project, based on their estimated runtime.

• The ​MindModeling@Home project has incorporated two United States Air Force Department of Defence LSF clusters and an additional Beowulf cluster in their beta project. Tools to facilitate this included: LSF submission scripts, control scripts to dynamically clean up potentially reschedule clients upon node time out and a multiple BOINC instance installer.

Using BOINC for grid computing

• The ​SZTAKI desktop grid project allows hierarchical organizations to share resources in a way that reflects the hierarchy.

• The ​University of Extremadura is using BOINC to allow a group of peer organizations to form a computational grid.