bagpipe  | 2007-09-17
BOINC Client spy
KBoincSpy, designed as a KDE monitor to control the BOINC client, will provide useful information about the computation of work units, such as estimates of the completion, percentage, and granted credits. Some project, for example, the SETI@home will reveal interesting information about the content and significance of the analyzed units of data. Also, you can use it to control the BOINC client behavior, allowing the user to attach or detach from projects, start the computation, or suspend network communication. If you’re wondering what BOINC is, the acronym stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. This is a software platform for distributed computing, which enables organizations who oversee scientific projects requiring extensive computing resources to easily set up and maintain a distributed computing infrastructure. By downloading the BOINC distributed computing client, each of the hundreds of thousands of participants worldwide can select the scientific projects more to his/her liking and assign some computing resources to them. If you want to help the greater good, this is your chance to go for it.