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I wonder if the real-time nature of the model makes it difficult to scale out to run on individual nodes (e.g. something like Folding@Home which sends off compu

I wonder if the real-time nature of the model makes it difficult to scale out to run on individual nodes (e.g. something like Folding@Home which sends off compute tasks to volunteer nodes across the world). I would imagine the government, universities, and so forth have lots of idling desktops and servers that could be clustered together into such a system. Obviously the bureaucracy and management of such a system would be difficult, but it would be an inexpensive way to give these projects additional compute capacity.

WoahNoun 4y ago
Unfortunately the finite element software used in the forecast requires a commercial license to run. https://www.comsol.com/products/licensing https://www.comsol.com/products/licensing
latchkey 4y ago
Ethereum will someday (let's not argue on the timing) move to PoS. This will render tens of millions of GPUs idle. I've been on a quest to find some sort of workload or task runner to take advantage of it and have been coming up empty handed. The issue is profitability. The capex has been spent... now we just need to find people willing to either risk opex or find profitable workloads.
- paxys 4y ago
  These cards will simply move over to mining the next altcoin on the list, as they all did when Bitcoin was no longer profitable.
  - latchkey 4y ago
    This time is different because none of the coins on the list have the effective potential of ETH (again, not for debate). ETC has a 6.5 day deposit time on exchanges, which makes it pretty hard to mine as small miners won't want to wait to get paid. This should come down as the hashrate (and security of the network) increases, however... without much network use (aka: utility)... the only thing to do with it will be to mine and dump. Thus, the price of all the alts will drop, profitability will go down and cards will turn off. I'm already seeing signs of people turning off their cards in the GPU Miners forums... We saw a preview of this behavior when Grin came out...
    - arthurcolle 4y ago
      This whole argument revolves around exchanges not having a 'higher tier' user account profile model, which is simply not the case. Basically all serious OTC desks running out of exchanges work on this model and are happy to accomodate depending on your liquidity. If you are making any decent amount of money mining, they will be more than happy to enable a more substantial rotating deposit/withdrawal profile for preferred customer accounts.
      - latchkey 4y ago
        I was referring to the small miners. On lower cap coins (everything but ETH/BTC, by a long shot), there isn't as much volume on the market, so even small farms will have a larger impact on price. Not all of them will have access to the OTC desks and they also tend to react in mass... when one freaks out, they all freak out.
- acchow 4y ago
  By the time the PoS migration occurs, those GPUs will not be cost effective to run. Better to just buy cheap, newer, power efficient GPUs
jdironman 4y ago
This sounds similar to what we used in districts when I was still in the K12 sector. Something called "Dataseam" which was used for cancer research. https://www.kydataseam.com/dataseamgrid https://www.kydataseam.com/dataseamgrid

WoahNoun 4y ago

Unfortunately the finite element software used in the forecast requires a commercial license to run. https://www.comsol.com/products/licensing https://www.comsol.com/products/licensing

latchkey 4y ago

Ethereum will someday (let's not argue on the timing) move to PoS. This will render tens of millions of GPUs idle. I've been on a quest to find some sort of workload or task runner to take advantage of it and have been coming up empty handed. The issue is profitability. The capex has been spent... now we just need to find people willing to either risk opex or find profitable workloads.

paxys 4y ago
These cards will simply move over to mining the next altcoin on the list, as they all did when Bitcoin was no longer profitable.
- latchkey 4y ago
  This time is different because none of the coins on the list have the effective potential of ETH (again, not for debate). ETC has a 6.5 day deposit time on exchanges, which makes it pretty hard to mine as small miners won't want to wait to get paid. This should come down as the hashrate (and security of the network) increases, however... without much network use (aka: utility)... the only thing to do with it will be to mine and dump. Thus, the price of all the alts will drop, profitability will go down and cards will turn off. I'm already seeing signs of people turning off their cards in the GPU Miners forums... We saw a preview of this behavior when Grin came out...
  - arthurcolle 4y ago
    This whole argument revolves around exchanges not having a 'higher tier' user account profile model, which is simply not the case. Basically all serious OTC desks running out of exchanges work on this model and are happy to accomodate depending on your liquidity. If you are making any decent amount of money mining, they will be more than happy to enable a more substantial rotating deposit/withdrawal profile for preferred customer accounts.
    - latchkey 4y ago
      I was referring to the small miners. On lower cap coins (everything but ETH/BTC, by a long shot), there isn't as much volume on the market, so even small farms will have a larger impact on price. Not all of them will have access to the OTC desks and they also tend to react in mass... when one freaks out, they all freak out.
acchow 4y ago
By the time the PoS migration occurs, those GPUs will not be cost effective to run. Better to just buy cheap, newer, power efficient GPUs

jdironman 4y ago

This sounds similar to what we used in districts when I was still in the K12 sector. Something called "Dataseam" which was used for cancer research. https://www.kydataseam.com/dataseamgrid https://www.kydataseam.com/dataseamgrid