The following BOINC projects have recently become active once again making them candidates for whitelisting for Gridcoin rewards. What are your thoughts?
DrugDiscovery@Home
https://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/
DrugDiscovery@Home is a distributed computing project, which uses the power of different computing devices worldwide (PC, GPUs, smartphones, clusters etc.). The computing time is kindly provided by volunteers, who want to make their impact into discovery of new drugs for the most dangerous and widespread diseases.
The Drug Discovery project is recovering from an ill fated link-up with the SONM project. The original project staff are now back in control and have restarted the project. I would say that this is a prime candidate for being added to the whitelist.
Please see my post on the BOINC forums for background.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11747&postid=79805
Acoustics@Home
http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/
Acoustics@home is a BOINC-based volunteer computing project aimed at solving inverse problems in underwater acoustics.
In underwater acoustics the notion of geoacoustic inversion refers to a collection of techniques that can be used for the reconstruction of medium parameters. The medium parameters are usually understood as the sound speed profile in water (i.e., the dependence of the sound speed on the depth) and the sound speed and density in the sea bottom sediment layers. Medium parameters reconstruction is of great importance for problems of underwater communication and for the development of underwater navigation systems.
Acoustics at home has recently restarted work after presenting a paper at the BOINC:FAST 2017 conference in Paris. The one potential issue stopping whitelist of this project is that the project does not appear to be SSL. This has been raised as an issue on previous votes although no official requirement for whitelisted projects to be SSL has been raised.
Mind Modelling
https://mindmodeling.org/
MindModeling@Home is a research project that uses volunteer computing for the advancement of cognitive science. The research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. We need your help to improve on the scientific foundations that explain the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning.
A long shot, I will say up front that I am keen on this project for personal reasons. The project has been out of work for a long time but now has work.
The big issue here is having a stable supply of work, I have posted on the project forum asking if the project will have more stable work but I am not hopeful. This project would be a prime candidate for any kind of Grey listing that Gridcoin implements.
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