I've got a local network running several BOINC machines. What I'd like to do is create a CGI page for my webserver that will poll the clients on the network and then return a listing with the current project(s), current workunit(s), percent complete, and estimated time to completion for each machine/workunit.

Can anybody point me to a source of documentation or pointers on how to create a program to poll the BOINC core client for this kind of information? I'm not even sure if this can be done using a CGI language like PHP or Perl, but I'd like to at least give it a shot.

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Actually, I think I just found a possible solution: parsing the client_state.xml file. :P

Still, that would require me to share the BOINC folder on every machine. I'd really like to find a way to communicate with the core client itself, since that wouldn't require me to fiddle with every individual machine.

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Have a look at BOINC.PHP - it may suit your needs.

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I have even done it with a C++ app running as CGI :)

Easy/lazy way: run boinc_cmd from the PHP app.

BOINC PHP seems quite good. I have noticed some things it's doing wrong, although they match how the core client is doing them wrong so it happens to work, but it's prone to breaking if the client ever does RPCs correctly.