Single jobs

BOINC is designed to handle streams of millions of jobs. However, you can also submit single jobs for remote execution. To do this, configure your BOINC server to handle single jobs (see below). Then type

boinc_job [boinc-options] program [program-options]

The boinc-options are:

--infile name

specifies an input file.

--stdin name

direct the given file to the program's stdin.

--outfile name

specifies an output file.

--stdout name

the program's stdout will be directed to the given file.

--platform

the program is to be run on the given BoincPlatforms platform? (default: i686-pc-linux-gnu).

You can include as many --infile and --outfile options as you want, and at most one of others.

The program-options will be passed as command-line arguments to the program when it runs on the remote machine.

If the program requires any non-standard libraries, it should link these statically. Otherwise it will fail to run on machines that lack these libraries.

When the job is completed successfully, the output files will appear in the job directory.

Configuring BOINC for single jobs

Download the latest server code and upgrade your project. Make sure you have boinc_samples/ installed. Then cd to your project's home directory and type

html/ops/single_job_setup path-to-boinc-samples
bin/update_versions

and answer "y" to all questions.