I'm deploying BOINC in an enterprise. The client is running as a service with no local manager, and managed remotely. I'd like to create groups of hosts that I can assign work to. BOINC teams are at the user level, but I use the same user for all hosts so I don't have to create a bunch of user ids when deploying the client en masse.

I need groups for several reasons: some of our tasks require certain applications to be installed on the host (OCR software) but it won't be on all hosts. Also, to avoid hammering our data servers, I want to limit the number of hosts available to do certain work.

Unfortunately, the BOINC teams are at the user level, not the host level. Also, I read that the validators and assimilators work differently for assigned work (I haven't looked into this any further). Is there any way to create groups of hosts for assigning work?