[boinc_dev] Modification: Subscription feature

[James E. Drews]

I don't think you need to modify the boinc client. What you need is an 
application like BoincView (http://boincview.amanheis.de/) or some custom 
program that uses the RPC method to control the clients. The only "hard" 
part would be getting the DNS or IP address of all the remote systems, but 
you could query that out of the database tables on the boinc server.

James

On 5 Oct 2004 at 17:22, Bernhard Kornberger wrote:
> As a part of my diploma thesis I need additional functionality in boinc.
> Before I start analyzing code and programming, I'd like to hear your
> opinions about this:
> 
> I've set up a boinc server with one project for my university. Clients
> contributing computing power to the project will also be set up. So far
> there's nothing new. But the clients are hundreds of computers distributed
> to different rooms and buildings of the university. Therefore they should
> be set up only once and if someone adds a new project to the server, there
> should be a possibility to make the clients subscribe to the new project.
> 
> Q1) Is there already something like this implemented in boinc?
> 
> Q2) If there is nothing appropriate within the boinc code I will have to
> modify the boinc client. As a first approach, I would create a base
> project which is subscribed by every client initially. This project would
> do nothing else than subscribing/unsubscribing/starting/stopping other
> projects. But how should this project get commands from the server?
> Trickle messages? How would you implement this feature?
> 
> reg.
>   Bernhard
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