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What is BOINC@TACC?  It is a project based on the Volunteer Computing (VC) model. It helps TACC/XSEDE researchers in running applications from a wide range of scientific domains (such as, aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering) on the laptops, desktops, tablets, or cloud-based Virtual Machines (VMs) owned by volunteers .
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Project Overview
 
Volunteer Computing (VC) is a form of computing that is done using the donated compute-cycles. The BOINC@TACC project integrates supercomputing with VC. It provides the capability of routing qualified High-Throughput Computing (HTC) jobs from the supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to the volunteered devices running either the BOINC  clients or another component that is a part of the BOINC@TACC software infrastructure. This integration of VC with supercomputing can potentially help those researchers/scholars who are running low on compute-time allocations on the TACC supercomputers, or are interested in reducing the turnaround time of their jobs when the supercomputers are over-subscribed.
 
 To participate in the BOINC@TACC project, the volunteers can either download the BOINC clients on their devices (such as laptops, desktops, and servers), or they can download another software provided by the BOINC@TACC project on their VMs in the cloud. Additional information on the software for volunteering the VMs in the cloud can be sought by sending an email to rauta@tacc.utexas.edu. After downloading the required software (for the devices or the VMs), the volunteers would need to register on the BOINC@TACC website by going here.
The researchers interested in using the BOINC@TACC infrastructure, can learn more about how to use it by following the steps in the user-guide
 
The BOINC@TACC infrastructure relies on the availability of the researchers' applications as Docker images. The researchers have the option of running the pre-built Docker images of the following applications that are maintained by the BOINC@TACC project team: Autodock-Vina, Bedtools, BLAST, Bowtie, GROMACS, HTSeq, LAMMPS, NAMD, and OpenSees. The researchers can also choose any other publicly available image in Docker Hub and run it through the BOINC@TACC infrastructure. If the researchers are not familiar with containerization, they can use the software framework provided by the BOINC@TACC project to automatically create the Docker images. Currently, the BOINC@TACC project supports the automatic dockerization of applications written in C, C++, Fortran, Python, or Bash.
 
For all questions regarding the BOINC@TACC project, please feel free to contact Dr. Ritu Arora at rauta@tacc.utexas.edu, with "BOINC@TACC" included in the subject-line.
 
Basic app_config.xml File
 
<app_config>
    <app>
        <name>boinc2docker</name>
     <max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
    </app>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>boinc2docker</app_name>
        <plan_class>vbox64_mt</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>4</avg_ncpus>
    </app_version>
</app_config>
 
post edited by bcavnaugh - 2019/04/01 17:18:34

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    Re: New BOINC Project BOINC@TACC is a research project 2019/04/02 19:20:31 (permalink)
    Set it up but no tasks yet...

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    Re: New BOINC Project BOINC@TACC is a research project 2019/04/03 13:44:21 (permalink)
    Opolis
    Set it up but no tasks yet...


    I have been trying as well under my own account as well that is.

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