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Considering the number of supercomputers that have been constructed since the days of ENIAC, I don't think we'll be running out of scientific computing problems
by Forbo 6y ago
Considering the number of supercomputers that have been constructed since the days of ENIAC, I don't think we'll be running out of scientific computing problems any time soon. And if we somehow do manage to run out of computing problems, then I guess we've already succeeded.
- fsflover 6y agoBut can you change the task underlying your cryptocurrency without breaking the network?
- ilammy 6y agoIf the network has been designed for this in the first place – why shouldn't you be able to? With Gridcoin you can participate in a number of eligible BOINC projects [1] and get rewards for computing on any of them. The network can add or remove projects. [1]: https://gridcoin.ddns.net/pages/project-list.php https://gridcoin.ddns.net/pages/project-list.php
- zekrioca 6y agoI'm wondering why you think supercomputers are actually built for. Besides that, the type of computational problems that are submitted to and that BOINC helps solving are different to those that a supercomputer solves. The former (known as High Throughput Computing, HTC) is concerned mainly -- as the name suggests -- with throughput, while the latter (High Performance Computing, HPC) with speed/latency. There is a reason why Cloud providers do not yet have "real" HPC offerings (i.e., performance-wise), even though with all the marketing they do to appear otherwise..
- Forbo 6y agoSorry I didn't specify. There's still plenty of demand for HTC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...