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SZTAKI Desktop Grid
http://desktopgrid.hu/

Desktopgrid.hu has been set up by the Computer and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). It is intended to introduce you the SZTAKI Desktop Grid. With SZTAKI Desktop Grid you can easily gain significant processing power for all of your computing intensive applications. Desktop grids allow vast number of single PCs to be connected in a grid-like system, adding up their processing power. Desktop grid systems are currently serving several cutting edge research areas, like cancer- research or searching for extraterrestrial intelligence. On the pages of desktopgrid.hu you will get yourself familiar with the two distinguished use of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform, described herein: a) SZTAKI Desktop Grid is basically a BOINC server packed in a Debian® package, to make server deployment as easy as possible. The SZTAKI Desktop Grid package is the main software component of a public, worldwide accessible desktop grid system. To effectively aid massive number of participants an extensive website component is part of this package; and b) Local SZTAKI Desktop Grid is also a BOINC server packed in a Debian® package, that focuses on local applications – like companies or university departments – providing them the flexibility of a desktop grid in a safe environment. In a local environment a system administrator supervises the server as well as the clients. The Local SZTAKI Desktop Grid package is a BOINC server without the public web interface, to be deployed in a local environment. Multiple Local SZTAKI Desktop Grids can be connected to cooperate in a hierarchy of desktop grids. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.