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BOINC pioneered this sort of shared computation to do massively data parallel experiments for astrophysics research in the early 00s. I think they still do. Th
by gcr 10y ago
BOINC pioneered this sort of shared computation to do massively data parallel experiments for astrophysics research in the early 00s. I think they still do.
These days, I think the hardware investment is much lower than the software+infrastructure+social investment of running your experiment on BOINC.
- tech_man7 10y agoThe Golem team (https://golem.network/ https://golem.network/) got their inspiration from BOINC. But now more people will have incentive to share their compute power because they will be paid.
- Lev1a 10y agoIIRC the focus of these kinds of infrastructures has shifted towards protein folding [1] which could IMO prove more useful than astrophysics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding