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Re:Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volu... by Forbo on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:39AM (#26237773)
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.
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Re:Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volu... by fsflover on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:53AM (#26237951)
But can you change the task underlying your cryptocurrency without breaking the network?
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Re:Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volu... by ilammy on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:08AM (#26238112)
If 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

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Re:Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volu... by zekrioca on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:52PM (#26241193)
I'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..

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Re:Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volu... by Forbo on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:46PM (#26244641)
Sorry I didn't specify. There's still plenty of demand for HTC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...

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