The team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" is open to all Internet users, independent of age, origin or nationality. Internet users are worldwide very cordially in this respect - also without regional attachment to the city "Halle/Saale" - welcome. The team is the Germany-wide first BOINC team with "BOINCcast", where further information are available as Podcast about BOINC and BOINC projects.
The links in the following table per BOINC project for the team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" have following meaning:
● Team: Overview of the members of the team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" participating with the respective BOINC-project.
● Team joining: A participant account with the BOINC-project of the choice is already available. The team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" is joined.
● Team account: A new participant account with the BOINC-project of the choice is created. Participant accounts which are created via these links belong automatically to the team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" and have the project preferences of the team founder.
Following procedure for the team joining with a BOINC project is recommended:
1. Registration and/or team joining
a) Creating new participant account and joining team "BOINC@Halle/Saale"
or provided that account key is already available with the BOINC project of the choice
b) Joining team "BOINC@Halle/Saale"
2. Download and installation of the current BOINC client software
3. Project registration of the computer
Provided that registration and/or team joining with several BOINC-projects are supposed to occur, then the steps "1. Registration and/or team joining" and "3. Project registration of the computer" with the further BOINC projects repeat. Registration and/or team joining always occur in an only project-specific way. At a registration with several BOINC projects attention should be paid, that always the same name and the same E-Mail postal address is used. This is necessary for a correct project-neutral and user-specific statistic, otherwise a user-specific sum of the credits and credit balances of all BOINC projects is not possible.
The protection of the privacy and the personal dates of all team members is an important request. From that the team activities are practiced exclusively considering the data protection laws to be used in each case. The personal dates of the team members (E-Mail postal addresses) are handled severely confidentially, a transmitting to third party does not occur.
1. Registration and/or team joining:
Reading the rules and basic principles of the respective BOINC-project on the Internet page of the respective project first please. Keeping on leading links to BOINC and the individual BOINC projects are to be found also among "BOINC projects".
Creating a participant account then with the BOINC-project of the choice and to join the team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" and/or to join the team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" with already existent participant account.
2. Download and installation of the current BOINC client software:
It is recommended to use only the link http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php to the Download of the BOINC client software. A Download of the Internet offers of various third providers is not to be recommended with regard to the safety hazard possibly associated with that. With that it is guaranteed thus that always the most current BOINC client software stands availably.
The BOINC client software is updated in a current way and improved. The use of the in each case most current version is recommended. Regular information about possible updating of the BOINC client software become also as "RSS-Feed" (Link: http://www.BOINC-Halle-Saale.de/BOINC-Halle-Saale.rss) availably set.
3. Project registration of the computer
Provided that a project registration of the computer is supposed to occur with several BOINC projects, following steps are to be repeated with all selected BOINC projects.
(0) Start of the "BOINC manager" and to select the
option "Projekt anmelden" in the menu "Extras"
(
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(1) Confirmation for the beginning of the project
registration with button "[ Weiter > ]" (
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(2) Input of the project address (URL of
the project page) and confirmation with button "[ Weiter > ]" (
Screenshot)
(3) Computer communicates with the project (
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(4) Input of the account information
(a) with not yet available
participant account and confirmation with button "[ Weiter > ]" (
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or
(b) with already available
participant account and confirmation with button "[ Weiter > ]" (
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(5) Computer communicates with the project (
Screenshot)
(6) Confirmation for the end of the project
registration with button "[ Beenden ]" (
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The Download of the respective project software as well as the corresponding work units occurs in the case of existing Internet combination then automatically.
With further questions to the team joining the available possibilities suit to all Internet users "BOINCcast", "Team forum", "Team videochat", "NEWS" and E-Mail * Team@BOINC-Halle-Saale.de also availably. Also for non-team members relief and technical support are achieved natural as well as answered on questions to BOINC projects.
In Addition the possibility exists to take the "BOINC Online Help" under http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php in use with problems.