After setting up my own Metal as a Service (MaaS) in my home-lab, I wasn’t sure what to do with the hardware node until I am starting over with an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) installation. Therefore I decided to provide the resources of the node to IBM World Community Grid. It’s basically a large network, where you can share you computer resources to different projects, e.g. research against AIDS or Tuberculosis. You can find my current participation progress below:
Participation is realized through the boinc client. Instructions for installation can be found on the projects website. Basically you just install the client:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager
Just avoid to start the boinc-client manually, as it will generate a second configuration file which will lead the regular / automatic start-up to fail. Once installed you can connect it to your account and start sharing your resources:
sudo -u boinc boinccmd --project_attach http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org <Account Key>
Your <Account Key> can be found on your My Profile page. Once configured it will boot up automatically and execute tasks after a short while without load.
