Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is een platform geschreven voor distributed computing en beschikbaar voor Linux, Mac OS X, Unixen en Windows. Van dit platform maken een aantal grote distributed computing projecten gebruik zoals Rosetta@home, SETI@home en ClimatePrediction.net. Voor meer informatie over het hoe en wat van Boinc verwijzen we jullie naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben een nieuwe versie uitgebracht met 5.8.8 als het versienummer. De lijst met aanpassingen sinds de vorige vermelding in de meuktracker ziet er als volgt uit:
What's new in 5.8:Version 5.6:
- The BOINC Manager offers two different interfaces: 'Simple' (small, graphical, skinnable) and 'Advanced' (maximum information). The Simple GUI allows local editing of preferences. You can switch back and forth between Simple and Advanced.
- CPU throttling: you can reduce CPU heat by limiting the fraction of time that BOINC computes.
- Improved scheduling policies avoid missing job deadlines even on a slow computer with lots of projects.
- You can limit the amount of memory used by BOINC; this lets you compute all the time without losing performance.
- Mac OS X version runs applications in an unpriviledged account, increasing security.
- Snooze button (in the system tray icon) lets you stop computing for one hour.
Version 5.4:
- New CPU Scheduler.
- CPU Capability detection.
- Improved security for POSIX compliant systems (only implemented for the Mac)
- Support for file compression on upload.
Version 5.3:
- BOINC now lets you use 'Account managers' - special web sites that let you browse BOINC projects, attach/detach, change resource share and settings, all with point-and-click simplicity. Account managers are also great if you have several computers - you just have to make changes once. A couple of excellent account managers are nearly ready for use; stay tuned to the BOINC web site for details.
- Fixes a bug where a personal firewall prevents the BOINC screensaver from running, causing your computer to lock up.
- General preferences can be overridden by a local file.
- BOINC now alerts you whenever it needs you to create a network connection.
- SOCKS5 proxies are now supported.
[break]De volgende bestanden zijn binnen te halen:
- Customized clients can now be created.
- Account manager support has been enhanced.
- Farm manager support has been added.
Boinc 5.8.8 - Windows installer
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