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    That's quite a pace you're setting, AMDave

    89 boxen, no doubt some of them virtual -but it works, score-wise.
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    Interestingly containers are virtualised environments but not virtual machines as there is no hardware abstraction layer involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC

    Scale-UP definitely works.
    I launched the LXCs on 1 box at the moment and it still has heaps of head-space.
    I could add lots lots more but I got tired of adding them last night and went to sleep.

    If I get bored later I will try scale-OUT - cascade the LXCs across all my boxes. =-O
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    Quote Originally Posted by AMDave View Post
    I could add lots lots more but I got tired of adding them last night and went to sleep.
    You should script it -and share the code with us. We all want 80-odd environments on one box, don't we?


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    Use Docker - this link also tells you to install apparmor which for some unknown reason the official docs don't and it fails

    Working with containers - the official docs are then fine for learning to work with the LXCs that you created or pulled

    Point and click with Kitematic - if you prefer the GUI way

    Thousands of predefined containers already exist including BOINC.
    I am using the "laurentmalvert/docker-boinc" container for this excercise.
    The only bit I need to script is the add-project part: get the new container IP, RPC connect & add project with participant name and password.
    I was doing that manually last night. I'd script that before scale-out.
    Maybe later. The super car qualifying is on at Phillip Island.
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    Thanks AMDave! With this information everyone should be able to do the same on a Linux box based upon Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    Captaincy of the GoofyxGrid team has been transferred to vaughan, who has joined the team now too.


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    Thanks Dirk, yes I joined last night.

    Will this run on my fleet of Odroids? Currently they run Asteroids nicely.

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    Not yet on your Odroids, but they're working on it: preparing linux32 and android (pie, non-pie, intel) version.


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    I just saw that yesterday and switched the containers off.
    No harm intended.
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    If I read it correctly, there should not be an issue when I would create a number of x containers (where x is <150) and run 40-odd projects in them, or is that wishful thinking?


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