Do I understand correctly that BOINC is not required once a project, in this case Einstein@home, is underway. My scenario is idle classroom computers, as would rather not have the students aware of the distributed computing application, or be able to change any parameters. BOINC is on the computers, but not active, and it appears we are accumulating credits. However, I presume BOINC will be required for multiple projects?

Do I understand correctly that BOINC is not required once a project, in this case Einstein@home, is underway.

No, that isn't correct. The client, or daemon, part of BOINC is absolutely needed, whether you have one project or many. Indeed, it must be running on your system(s) if you are accumulating credits.

But as Dagorath has explained, the other part of BOINC, the Manager, is not needed at all once things are under way, except for occasional monitoring and, well, management.

If you have a Windows machine available for a supervisor or teacher to use on the same network, you might like to explore an add-on tool like BoincView. This would enable you to check the state of play, and to a certain extent control, the BOINC installations on all the students' machines, without having to visit each one and log off/log on each time.

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If you have a Windows machine available for a supervisor or teacher to use on the same network, you might like to explore an add-on tool like BoincView. This would enable you to check the state of play, and to a certain extent control, the BOINC installations on all the students' machines, without having to visit each one and log off/log on each time.

You can also use the BOINC Manager>Advanced>Select computer... menu item to connect to other clients, though probably not as comfortable as with BoincView. See Controlling BOINC remotely.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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