Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of QuickStart

Timestamp:

Jun 6, 2008, 4:01:46 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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QuickStart

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  * When prompted, enter the URL '''http://a.b.c.d/test/''', and enter an email and password.
 
-Your BOINC client will immediately being fetching and executing jobs from the server.
-You can repeat this on as many clients as you want.
+Your BOINC client will immediately being fetching and executing jobs from the server
+(the jobs are for a sample application that uses 1 minute of CPU time
+and processes a 4 MB file).
+You can repeat this on as many computers as you want.
+Voila!  You're doing distributed computing.
 
 In a web browser, visit '''http://a.b.c.d/test'''.
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 You can log in (using the same email/password) and access
 your volunteer account information.
+
+== Running your own application ==
+
+Suppose that instead of the sample application, you want to run your own.
+Logged in to the virtual server, type
+{{{
+cd ~/projects/test
+html/ops/single_job_setup.php ~/boinc_samples
+}}}
+and follow the resulting instructions.
+This configures your project to handle "single job" submissions.
+Then compile a program in your home directory.
+Say the program is '''a.out''' and that it writes to stdout.
+Then, in your home directory, type
+{{{
+boinc/tools/boinc_submit --stdout foo a.out
+}}}
+When this completes, '''foo''' will contain the output of a.out,
+run on one of the BOINC client hosts.
+
+== What's next? ==
+
+This demonstrates how you can use BOINC to run programs remotely,
+but it's not the complete picture.
+In particular:
+
+ * This demo uses only Linux clients.  BOINC lets you use heterogeneous pools of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other clients.
+ * This demo involves manual submission of single jobs.  BOINC lets you create automated systems that create and handle millions of jobs per day.
+ * In this demo, we trust the client to return correct results.  BOINC lets you set things up so that results from faulty or malicious clients are automatically detected and rejected.
+
+... and many, many other things.
+Keep on reading.