BHS

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This is the official page of the free program BHS. It is a simple Python script, and I am not a Python expert, so don't expect much from it.

Since BHS is free software, you can download, use, modify and redistribute it to your heart's content, with some caveats (see license). If you would like to share your corrections/additions with me, I'd gladly hear of them by e-mail.

What it allegedly does

Basically BHS downloads a host.gz from the stats directory of a given BOINC project, and processes it to extract what percent of the total computers that contribute to that project (and the credit they yield) corresponds to different OSs (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and others).

How it does it

I have written some posts about the evolution of this script in my blog:

• Python: speed vs. memory tradeoff reading files (Feb 15, 2008)
• Speeding up file processing with Unix commands (Feb 17, 2008)
• Summary of my Python optimization adventures (Feb 17, 2008)
• Some more tweaks to my Python script (Feb 19, 2008)

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