bring folding@home into BOINC/Gridcoin

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bring folding@home into BOINC/Gridcoin #70

Closed skcin closed 4 years ago

skcin commented 6 years ago

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz Thursday Jan 26, 2017 at 09:22 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/67

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

skcin commented 6 years ago

Comment by grctest Thursday Jan 26, 2017 at 09:38 GMT

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.

skcin commented 6 years ago

Comment by Erkan-Yilmaz Thursday Jan 26, 2017 at 10:10 GMT

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

skcin commented 6 years ago

Comment by MagixInTheAir Monday Aug 28, 2017 at 21:34 GMT

Any updates from F@H ?

skcin commented 6 years ago

Comment by tomasbrod Monday Aug 28, 2017 at 21:40 GMT

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.

grctest commented 6 years ago

How can we establish proof of F@H account ownership though? We currently go by CPID, but if we switch to UserID whilst requiring a proof-of-userid mechanism on their website, we may be unable to prove F@H account ownership unless we copy foldingcoin/curecoin's account verification process?