Hi All
I want to set up BOINC to take part in the BBC project. However as I want to install this project on over 400 computers I was wondering if BOINC had a network management tool so all the computers are not accessing the Internet directly but instead going throught a central server which handles all the uploads / downloads etc etc.

Installing the software on each machine is not a problem I just need some kind of server to hand out work.

Hope you can help

Regards
James
UK

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Sorry all of the hosts need a path to the internet. There is no provision for having one host relay work to another. You can set up proxies but I do not think that is what you want.

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That is actually easy to do. All you need to do attach to the bbc project from one computer. Then copy the file account_bbc.cpdn.org.xml (found in the boinc program directory - c:\\program files\\boinc\\ by default for a windows client) to the boinc directory on all the 400 other machines. The next time the boinc client starts on those machines, it will fetch work from the BBC project.

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Oh, and for managing farms - I have a tool in the works. It is still mostly design scratches on paper as I haven't had much time to code lately. There was a code change in the core client that was submitted and accepted to make this possible (it is in the 5.3.x version of the client). I'll post more once I have a beta version up and running.

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