BOINC Basics: support for working communities David P. Anderson UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab 11 Oct 2007
Accounts ● address, password, account key ● User-supplied attributes – profile – avatar – signature – demographics ● Project-supplied attributes – credit – course mastery (Bolt) – task skill level (Bossa)
Communication ● Message boards – feature-rich ● Private messages ● RSS feeds – project messages + thread subscriptions + PM ● BOINC Manager: alerts for new RSS items ● Other channels – Skype, IRC
Groups and teams ● Each group has: – a forum – a file upload/download area – a BOINC workunit queue ● user job submission/management Teams Groups ● Each team also has: – credit – admins Goal: team as organizational structure, recruitment engine