Running a BOINC cluster

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Pijjles Send message Joined: 7 Aug 20 Posts: 1 Credit: 65,612 RAC: 0	Message 98442 - Posted: 9 Aug 2020, 0:30:45 UTC I have a bunch of raspberry pi 3+'s running BOINC-client. I have one where I've added the folding@home covid project and it's happily crunching away. I thought I could add remote work nodes to increase the # of cpus available to this process. I found configure in the menu but I can't add work nodes. I set the password on the nodes and set up preshared ssh keys between the headnode and the work nodes, but I can't figure out how to add the nodes to be controlled by the headnode. Help? jmacdowall@gmail.com ID: 98442 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1677 Credit: 17,760,053 RAC: 22,881	Message 98443 - Posted: 9 Aug 2020, 1:06:41 UTC BOINC doesn't support clustering, although some people have been able to do so. It'll be a case of figuring out how to do so yourself, or just use them as BOINC was designed to be used- install BOINC on each of the systems, then you can use one system to remotely manage all the others. Or use a 3rd party manager to manage all of them. Grant Darwin NT ID: 98443 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

PorkyPies Send message Joined: 6 Apr 20 Posts: 45 Credit: 1,650,779 RAC: 0	Message 98446 - Posted: 9 Aug 2020, 10:48:56 UTC Last modified: 9 Aug 2020, 10:49:15 UTC As Grant said you'll need to install BOINC on each node. You can manage them from a single machine using BOINCtasks if you like. Its a windows program. You can download it from efmer.com MarksRpiCluster ID: 98446 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,154,825 RAC: 4,074	Message 98472 - Posted: 10 Aug 2020, 22:12:07 UTC - in response to Message 98442. I have a bunch of raspberry pi 3+'s running BOINC-client. I have one where I've added the folding@home covid project and it's happily crunching away. I thought I could add remote work nodes to increase the # of cpus available to this process. I found configure in the menu but I can't add work nodes. I set the password on the nodes and set up preshared ssh keys between the headnode and the work nodes, but I can't figure out how to add the nodes to be controlled by the headnode. Help? jmacdowall@gmail.com Read here too: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=14143&postid=98430#98430 More people using Pi's so lots more info. ID: 98472 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote