Instructions to install the BOINC client and attaching to the FZK Protein Folding project

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 run it, either by double clicking it or by running it out of your downloadmanager.
This will start the installation. After advancing a few screens by clicking "weiter" or "next" and accepting the license, you will be asked for a directory to install to.

Either leave the standard directory untouched or point the installer to a directory of your choice. When asked for the setup type choose 'Shared Installation'. This way every user of your computer can configure BOINC to fit their needs:

Unless you specifically don't want to run BOINC when your computer starts, check 'Launch BOINC when logging on' in the next screen:

Click 'next' or 'weiter' a few times, finish the installer and start BOINC for the first time. A wizard will popup the first time you start, which will instruct you to attach to a project:

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 will popup, 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). For this switch to the advanced view:

Here 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!