Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing).

The client can be installed on any Debian system and used to join any BOINC project (PrimeGrid, Science United, etc).

The client will run compute tasks in background in low priority.

• Installation

apt install boinc-client

• Attach a project

boinccmd --project_attach <project url> <account key>

• Get the client current state

boinccmd --get_state