BOINC lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. RDP-Boinc is a docker for the BOINC manager and client that can be accessed through a web based ui.
On unRaid, install from the Community Applications and enter the app folder location and the port for the webUI.
On other platforms, you can run this docker with the following command:
docker run -d --name="RDP-Boinc" -e HEIGHT="720" -e WIDTH="1280" -v /path/to/config:/config:rw -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro -p XXXX:8080 aptalca/docker-rdp-boinc
- Replace "/path/to/config" with your choice of folder location. That is where all of your configuration and library files will reside, so you won't lose data when you update, reinstall, etc.
- Replace "XXXX" with your choice of port.
- You can change the screen resolution by modifying the WIDTH and HEIGHT variables.
- Ctrl-Alt-Shft will bring up the menu that allows changing input options
To access the GUI, point your web browser to http://SERVERIP:PORT/#/client/c/Boinc (Replace SERVERIP and PORT with your values)
Some platforms like Debian are having issues with setting timezones. If you get the following error:
mv: cannot move '/etc/localtime.dpkg-new' to '/etc/localtime': Device or resource busy *** /etc/my_init.d/00_config.sh failed with status 1 and the container stops, remove the following from your run command: -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro and replace it with the following: -e TZ="America/New_York"
You can change the timezone to yours according to the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones