BOINC in an LXC container

Years ago, I was very keen on the SETI@home project that used a distributed computing model whereby packets of digitized received radio data were farmed out to individuals’ computers to be processed to look for any unusual signals that could potentially be from an intelligent extra-terrestrial source.

That’s long since defunct, but the idea lives on with BOINC - a system run out of Berkley that allows different science organisations to offer projects to run on individuals’ computers.