What is BOINC?
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is an open-source volunteer oriented computing grid that combines the processing power of all individual users for the purposes of scientific research.
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source middleware system which supports volunteer and grid computing. Originally developed to support the SETI@home project, it became generalized as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, linguistics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics, among others. BOINC aims to enable researchers to tap into the enormous processing resources of multiple personal computers around the world.
What are some examples of existing BOINC projects?
World Community Grid : Attempting to solve Cancer, Ebola, Malaria, Zika, etc
SETI@Home : Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
GPUGRID : Full-atom molecular simulations of proteins
Asteroids@home : Asteroid research - it uses photometric measurements of asteroids observed by professional big all-sky surveys as well as 'backyard' astronomers. The data is processed using the lightcurve inversion method and a 3D shape model of an asteroid together with the rotation period and the direction of the spin axis are derived.
Milkyway@home : Creation of a 3d map of the milkyway galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project enables research in both astroinformatics and computer science.
vLHCathome : Full-fledged LHC event physics simulations
Rosetta@Home: Protein structure prediction that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. Disease Related Research
Cosmology@Home : Darkmatter/Universe Model Research
Can I create an BOINC project?
Anyone can create a BOINC project, there's no centralised authority that you are required to consult before creating a BOINC project.
If you've got an idea for a distributed computing project, head on over to the BOINC project brainstorming thread on STEEM to get an idea of possible BOINC projects.
What's this talk of a whitelist?
The BOINC project whitelist is a voted upon list of projects rewarded within the Gridcoin network. We don't reward all projects because some projects are inactive/dead or are insecure & a risk to our users.
If you have concerns regarding the whitelist or wish to have your project whitelisted then speak up in the Gridcoin whitelist thread.
Due to the nature of this BOINC project, there's nothing stopping you from ignoring the whitelist and distributing your crypto assets against non-whitelisted projects but you do so at your own risk (and potentially at the risk of your own crypto community).
What is Project Rain?
'Project Rain' is the practice of distributing crypto assets to BOINC users based on their verified BOINC computation; it was initially devised within the Gridcoin network and has been expanded to multiple cryptocurrencies and all BOINC teams through this BOINC project.
Through this BOINC project, you will be able to match a user's BOINC CPID to their multiple crypto asset addresses/accounts to which you can distribute your asset against.
Think of Project Rain as a new share-dropping vector that doesn't require end-users handling wallet private keys nor providing proof of IRL identity.
What is exciting about project rain is that there are currently over 500,000 active BOINC users and 4 million total registered BOINC users to whom you could potentially distribute your choice of asset.
What cryptocurrencies are currently supported?
Gridcoin, Bitshares, STEEM, Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), NXT, Ardor, Hyperledger, Waves, Omnilayer and Counterparty.
Is there a mandatory team requirement?
There is no mandatory team requirement for joining the website. Assets may be distributed by individuals to specific teams with full freedom of choice and no site interference.
Who decides upon asset distribution details?
The individual wishing to 'rain' an asset is fully responsible for picking the projects and/or teams to target as well as the desired 'rain weight' for each project. The 'Project-Rain' BOINC project admin has no input on who/what gets 'rained' upon; 'project rain' targets and asset platforms are entirely the initiators choices.
Is a fee charged for this service?
No fees will be charged by the Project-Rain website. You'll be likely to pay a large fee to distribute your asset on your cryptocurrency platform of choice to equate with the scale of the Project Rain distribution.
Can I contribute to the development of project-rain?
Yes, you certainly can! https://github.com/grctest/project-rain-site
I would really appreciate help finishing the 'rain tutorial' page: https://github.com/grctest/project-rain-site/blob/master/source/rain-tutorial.html.erb (I need specific info for how to create the equivalent of a 'sendmany' transaction to potentially tens of thousands of BOINC users on your crypto network platform).
I would also appreciate input on address validation for the planned supported cryptocurrencies.
Relevant Steem posts
Next Gridcoin Hangout
Brainstorming new BOINC projects
[Gauging Interest] Would you be interested being able to tip BOINC users your crypto-asset of choice?
Any thoughts? Interested in performing a 'project rain' for your crypto asset of choice?
Best regards,
CM.
