bring folding@home into BOINC/Gridcoin

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bring folding@home into BOINC/Gridcoin #67

Open Erkan-Yilmaz opened 7 years ago

Erkan-Yilmaz commented 7 years ago

see "FAH on BOINC" why they stopped
recent explanation by @grctest:
- "What's probably more feasible would be to extend the NN to folding@home, but it would require hardcoding within the client.
- Alternatively, one could create a BOINC project, establish a method of proving FAH account ownership, then replicate their rewarded score into RAC?"

mentioned in hangout 6 at begin

grctest commented 7 years ago

I believe that the 18th Gridcoin Hangout might shine some light onto the feasibility of rewarding F@H via Gridcoin as we spoke with the Curecoin team. We should certainly encourage foldingcoin and curecoin to extend their reward mechanism to include the folding BOINC projects.

Erkan-Yilmaz commented 7 years ago

from chat:

Optilasgar: Folding@Home had a BOINC testing project once, but retired it and went back to their solo application. Why would they start a 2nd test?

Erkan_Yilmaz: more pcs, faster reaching their goals
and the info in link in the github says they had it in 2006, so in 10 years more things may have changed BOINC wise

pwnorbitals commented 6 years ago

Any updates from F@H ?

tomasbrod commented 6 years ago

I support this idea.

The problem is that Gridcoin's current NN system requires CPID to track work done by miner, which i believe Folding does not support.

If Account IDs are to replace CPIDs (SAAp), and DWPp is implemented, this could be very easy to implement on top of that system.