Instructions to install the BOINC client and attaching to the FZK Protein Folding project on a linux machine
Visit the URL http://boinc.berkeley.edu and download the client as shown on the two following pictures:
Click "Herunterladen" or "Download" depending on your language.
Click "Herunterladen" or "Download" again and save the file on your local hard disk. Afterwards open a terminal windows and move the file to the directory, you want to install it to. Change the permissions of the file, to be able to execute it, afterwards run it:
A new directory 'BOINC' will be created containing all the necessary files to run BOINC.
You can now create a shortcut to the executable 'run_manager' on your desktop. To do this under KDE right click on the desktop and choose 'Create New' and then 'Link to Application'. Configure it to your needs and edit the application tab in the following way:
Start the BOINC manager by clicking this executable and wait for the 'Attach to project' wizard to pop up. Continue on to the next screen. On this screen enter the project url http://boinc.fzk.de/poem and advance to the next screen:
The project will now be contacted and on success, you will be asked to create a new account or enter your old one. If you are in charge for multiple PCs, you can also use a single account on them. If the project doesn't respond at that time, just try again. If it still doesn't respond, it might be down for mainentance. Please try again at a later date.
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Once you finish the account wizard, a webbrowser may popup (if there is an error message instead don't worry - you're not missing out anything important), where you can enter some other details about your person. This is not mandatory. If you don't want to specify anything, just close the browser:
BOINC should run and get new work now. It works in low priority mode, so that it doesn't use the CPU, whenever you need it.
If the PC, you just installed BOINC to, resides in the FZK, you also have to setup the proxy server, because otherwise BOINC won't be able to access an outside reference site (it will however be able to contact the server). Open the Extras->Options dialog:
and enter the correct proxy: http://proxy.fzk.de Port 8000 in the proxy tab:
Thank you for your participation!
For advanced users:
If you want to run the BOINC client headless on many machines, just configure it with the GUI as written above and close it again, then open a terminal and cd to the BOINC install directory. There input: nohup ./boinc &:
BOINC will run then and report all status messages to the file nohup.out in the same directory. If you want to stop boinc again, just enter a terminal and input killall boinc.
If you want to run this configuration on many hosts, just zip it up, move it to another PC and execute it again there.