The berkeley open infrastructure for network computing (boinc) is a software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of desktop computers. the developers' web site at the university of berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run projects.

regular users (righteously) often find it an unbearable nuisance to care for the configuration of boinc for the opencl-savvy amd/ati graphics cards. this package adds a series of dependencies from the non-free section to the regular boinc package. this also meant this binary package to be redistributed in the contrib section of debian.

this package is not perfect, yet. a major problem for the moment is the availability of the opencl driver for 32bit binaries for amd64. if this is planned, install the amd-app package provided through the amd developer forum.