Let's build a BOINC Kubernetes Cluster with Raspberry Pi4
Let's build a BOINC Kubernetes Cluster with Raspberry Pi4
I was looking forward to volunteer some raspiBOINC CPU time to the Asteroids@Home project. When the BOINC-client requested tasks response from server was: Message from server: This project doesn’t support computers of type aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu The Asteroids@Home application is only build…
You may have noticed that the BOINC distributed computing project Asteroids@home went down in July 2020 because of a fatal server crash. Because of the pandemic the team behind this project at Charles University were not able to replace the…
BOINC is now running on my Desktop PC and also on the 4 Raspberry Pi cluster nodes. So you might can imagine that it is not very comfortable to keep an overview on all running BOINC-clients. The BOINC Manager starts…
When you are planning to run BOINC on a Kubernetes Raspbery Pi cluster there are e few things you have to keep in mind. Persistence Kubernetes will run the BOINC-client in a so called Pod. This is actually the container…
While testing the BOINC client and its setup on the K3S Cluster I noticed that no task for Rosetta@home are be downloaded. A Quick look on the Project Homepage revealed that there are no tasks ready for download. So nothing…
I read a lot the last days about Kubernetes, Containers and how to create an Deployment for the Kubernetes cluster. I do like to mention the content Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) creates on his channels like Youtube, Blog or on GitHub.…
So, the Desktop was crunching 24/7 mainly on Rosetta@Home and vacations in foreign countries were not able this summer, what else can we do? Why not building a Cluster which runs BOINC? Nowadays deployment, scaling and maintenance is fully automated…
2020 was difficult for most of us because of the pandemic. With escalation of infections numbers spreading all around the globe it was clear, that a vaccine is needed to stop the spreading. I started with SETI@home as a kinda…