BOINCpe: Live-CD for BOINC
With BOINCpe you can run a dedicated BOINC machine in-RAM (using a RAM disk) starting from only 256 MB of total RAM. This is useful to operate your BOINC farm more energy-efficient (without HDDs) or to temporarily activate machines without hard disk drives (HDD) for BOINC.
You only need the following components for a fully capable BOINC crunching machine featuring low power consumption:
- Mainboard + CPU
- at least 256 MB of RAM
- Network interface card (optional: PXE compatible)
- CD-ROM drive (only if booting from CD)
BOINCpe is based on BartPE and, therefore, on a preinstalled Microsoft Windows® environment. It is as light-weight as any Windows can be. There is no 24 hour limit for operation like in WinPE. Of course, you need a proper license for the Windows version you are running (XP Home is sufficient). BOINCpe itself is free!
In combination with a BAM (BOINC Account Manager) Account, it is extremely easy and comfortable to integrate new machines. Basically, it is copying a couple of files (~4 of them), burning the CD and booting up…
Download
- Download BOINCpe beta v0.5.0 (BOINC v5.10.28, BartPE v3.1.10a) (latest version)
new style featuring the new BOINC logo, changed cron scheduler of persistency service to Gerhard Kalab's cron, default of 4 backups per day instead of 1 daily backup (persistency service), updated BOINC client - Download BOINCpe beta v0.4.1 (BOINC v5.8.15, BartPE v3.1.10a)
introduced global_prefs_override.xml, introduced separate config file for persistency service, updated BOINC client - Download BOINCpe beta v0.4.0 (BOINC v5.8.11, BartPE v3.1.10a) (first public beta release)
negotiated legal stuff, updated BOINC client, multiprocessor/SMP support (experimental), fixes to persistency service
Legacy Versions:
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Screenshots
Further information
- How to set up BOINCpe
- BOINCpe: Advanced Configuration
- BOINCpe - FAQ
- BOINCpe - Live-CD for BOINC based on BartPE (Meisterkuehler.de Forum)
Credits & License
BOINCpe is released with permission by Bart Lagerweij who is the inventor of BartPE. Furthermore, BOINCpe utilizes a special version of QSoft Ramdisk provided by Christiaan Ghijselinck as well as the cron service by Gerhard Kalab.
Thanks for your cooperation and those great tools.
Therefore, BOINCpe underlies the common copyright of the authors of its parts. It can, unfortunately, not be redistributed or modified without the written permission of these authors.
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