BOINC add-on software

The following programs complement or enhance BOINC, but were not developed by the BOINC project.

Windows

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Description
SETI@home-MapView SETI@home-Mapview creates skymaps for the BOINC projects SETI@home-II, Einstein@home and Astropulse.
SETI@BOINCWatch A SETI@Home/BOINC client watcher! User statistics powered by BOINCStats
SETI@BOINCWatch(.NET) A SETI@Home/BOINC client watcher! User statistics powered by BOINCStats. But now built with the .NET environment.
BoincLogX BoincLogX creates detailed log files for all BOINC projects.
CPDNSpy Stats/Benchmarkprogram. Only for CPDN!!!
BOINC Monitor A desktop gadget that shows the status of running tasks
BoincSpy Views BOINC project statistics
SETISpirit SETIspirit is free add-on tool for SETI@home users which provides information about the tasks, the SETI@home project status, workunits and credits, statistic charts and a detailed sky map.
ThreadMaster Control max CPU usage and prevent overheating (not specific to BOINC)
BES Control max CPU usage and prevent overheating (not specific to BOINC)
BOINC Client Configuration Windows GUI for editing the client configuration file
BoincTasks An advanced and powerful BOINC GUI
SETI@BOINCWatch(.NET 2.0) A SETI@Home/BOINC client watcher! User statistics powered by BOINCStats. But now built with the .NET environment.
BOINCcalculator Show details of CPDN jobs
SQL Setup for BoincSpy Stores Workunits into SQL database
BoincView Advanced BOINC manager for networks
TThrottle TThrottle throttles CPU usage to keep its temperature below a limit you select.

Linux

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Description
boinctui Fullscreen text mode manager for BOINC
BoincTasks An advanced and powerful BOINC GUI (requires Wine)
boinc-suse Init script for SuSE 9.2 and 9.3
BOINC Monitor Plasmoid to show BOINC status on the KDE desktop
SETI@Boinc Tracker SETI@Boinc Tracker is a GUI Client for Tracking Boinc CLI Client!
boinctop top like view of boinc status
Diet BOINC A no-graphics, lightweight XScreenSaver compatible alternative for BOINC screen saver
KBoingMgr A Linux/KDE replacement for the standard BOINC Manager
BOINCSTAT Command line view of BOINC status
CPU limiter Limits the CPU usage (good for laptops)
BOINCTail BOINCTail displays the status of jobs running in the BOINC environment in a 'tail-like' way.
BOINCprog A BOINC project progress monitor
boincctl Script to start boinc at boot time.
Boinc bash script Boinc state displayer
rc.boinc (Slackware) rc.boinc - Slackware Startup Script
Boinctray A system tray application for monitoring the BOINC client
MultiTail Multitail shows several simultaneous tails in different curses windows.

Mac

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Description
BoincTasks An advanced and powerful BOINC GUI (requires Wine)
BOINC Statistics Lets you check BOINC stats from the Mac OS X Dashboard
Seti Check Revolutions Boinc state displayer. Only for seti@home!
BOINCMenubar 2 Mac GUI for BOINC
SETI@Boinc Tracker SETI@Boinc Tracker is a GUI Client for Tracking Boinc CLI Client!
CPDNSpy Linux/Mac Stats/Benchmarkprogram. Only for CPDN!!!

Mobile

Add-on
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Description
AndroBOINC BOINC graphical interface for Android devices
BoincTasks Mobile BOINC graphical interface for mobile devices (Android, iPhone, iPad)

Web browser toolbars and plugins

Add-on
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Description
SAH User Statistics An extension for Firefox (works only with 1.0 to 1.5; may work under Mozilla) that displays your stats for SAH
BOINC User Statistics Widget Widget displays statistics for BOINC projects (requires the Yahoo! widget engine)
BOINC Statistics Shows your statistics for any BOINC project (requires the Yahoo! widget engine)
BOINC Server Status Yahoo! widget adds the BOINC Online Scheduler image to your desktop.

Web applications

Add-on
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Description
Boinc LCS Shows the current state and other information from an unlimited number of BOINC clients connected to the Internet.
Progress Thru Processors Facebook-based interface to BOINC
BOINC Milestones Facebook application that posts credit milestones in your Status
Forum signature showing jobs in progress A PHP script that generates a forum signature showing jobs in progress
SETI@home/BOINC progress status Show your SETI@home/BOINC progress on your homepage
BoincPHP5-GUI Monitor and control Boinc from a web browser
GOINC GOINC: A Google homepage module for keeping tabs on BOINC.


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