Dear all, No idea if this is acceptable contribution to the Debian Covid-19 biohackathon, at least we used Debian (and only Debian) to bring the BOINC package to the OpenWrt Router OS [1]. The idea is to have many small machines contribute that are running 24/7. We have teamed up with TN-GRID who are also studying a selection of Covid-19 associated gene effects.
To run BOINC on your router : * extend the /overlay with an external USB stick/SATA drive - can be configured via the LuCI web interface * opkg install boinc [2] * boinccmd --project_attach http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ \ "youraccounthashshownon http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/home.php"; We don't expect too much of an impact on the router's perfomance since the I/O will be dealt with by hardware. We need to have a look at VPNs, though - first thing to do after the lock-down. We gave our little project its own github.io page [3], please leave an issue there in case something unexpected happens. Best, Steffen [1] https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/boinc [2] if running an OpenWrt SNAPSHOT (which is their "sid"), otherwise download and install the .ipk file diectly [3] https://volunteercomputinghelp.github.io/
