BOINC Monitor overview

Version 9.92 released at 07/13/2020

BOINC lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. You can find more on official BOINC site

BOINC Monitor is a small Windows 10 gadget that displays the BOINC tasks progress right on your desktop. If you want to help science by using distributed computing on your computer, you know what is the BOINC software platform for volunteer computing. Maybe you use not one computer for this. To monitor all these computers on which the BOINC client operates is designed our BOINC Monitor gadget.

You must right set up BOINC data folder. Typically it is %PROGRAMDATA%\BOINC\ folder. This folder contains special client_state.xml file. This file provides all data that used by gadget. You can run up to eight instances of gadget for different client_state.xml files. Network drives is allowed too.

BOINC Monitor supports two methods to get data: standard and advanced. In last case gadget is used few additional files for provide more information, e.g. graphics card, etc.

Projects names and URLs can be changed anytime. You can edit it from gadget. Use "Edit projects list" button on edit settings tab (it marked by edit icon ). Don't forget close settings after finished edition. Moreover, you can manually edition projects list. It saved into allprojectslist.xml file and located into gadget's home folders.

All in all, BOINC Monitor comes in handy to all users who want to get an overview of their BOINC tasks progress right on their desktop.

BOINC Monitor features explained:

Special features

Network drives for watching progress allowed. Click on BOINC logo icon for show flyout window with projects details. Click host name (like localhost) for show host details. Hover mouse to project's name (SETI, Prime, etc.) for show any additional info. In fly-out window click on "Project URL" or "CPID" for copy corresponding element into buffer (clipboard). Hover mouse to each WU bar for show details about this WU. Hover mouse to GPU vendor icon ( / / ) for show detail about GPU. Number on GPU vendor icon ( / / ) indicate GPU number for this WU. You need check appropriate box in #3 setup tab. Don't work if you choose standard calculate mode or if you have only one GPU. Click on or for Previous/Next project. Hover mouse to each graph for show details about this graph. Click on project's name for opens project's site. Click on icon for open ccConfig (thanks to Gang Yin). Double click on background run BOINC Manager or BoincTasks.

Advice1: If you use BOINC Monitor for watching progress on remote computer you must choose proper path for client_state.xml file. Use Select button for this. Don't forget give the BOINC Monitor permission to access to this folder and client_state.xml file. More about permission see File and Folder Permissions.

Advice2: If you see "A semi colon character was expected" (Error: -1072896760) message go to F.A.Q. for explanation.

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