What's BOINC?
BOINC is an open-source volunteer distributed computing platform which utilizes the spare computer resources on 500k+ computers to attempt to cure diseases, map the milkyway, search for extraterrestrial life, and any other kind of distributable computation.
Anyone who needs a serious amount of distributed computing power (100k+ CPUs) almost entirely for free can create a BOINC project to create a distributed cloud service of their own desire (fairly easily) whilst the Gridcoin network potentially rewards your project's volunteers on your behalf.
What is project-rain?
'Project Rain' is the practice of distributing crypto assets to BOINC users based on their verified BOINC computation; it was initially devised within the Gridcoin network and has been expanded to multiple cryptocurrencies and all BOINC teams through the proposed BOINC web server changes.
Think of Project Rain as a new share-dropping vector that doesn't require end-users handling wallet private keys nor providing proof of IRL identity.
Rather than earning one token for your BOINC computation, you could be merge crunching many BOINC distributed tokens!
Project-Rain merging into the BOINC repo?
Rather than running my own BOINC project solely for the purpose of providing the project-rain functionality, I have created a pull request to merge the changes into the BOINC GitHub repo. If it is merged then all future or updated BOINC projects will have project-rain functionality.
What cryptocurrencies are currently supported?
Gridcoin, Steem, Bitshares, Peerplays, Storj, NEM, IBM Bluemix Blockchain, ColoredCoins, Antshares, Lisk, Decent, Synereo, LBRY, Wings, BoardRoom, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Expanse, Golem, NXT, Ardor, Hyperledger Sawtooth Lake (Intel), Hyperledger Fabric (IBM), Waves, Peershares, Omnilayer, CounterParty, Hyperledger (MISC), Stratis, Metaverse, Cosmos, Stratis, Zcash & Heat Ledger.
Is there a mandatory team requirement?
There is no mandatory team requirement for joining the website, all BOINC teams/users are welcome to join!
Assets may however be distributed by rain makers to specific teams since they have full freedom of choice to do so.
Who decides upon asset distribution details?
The 'rain maker' planning on 'raining' an asset is fully responsible for picking the projects and/or teams to target as well as the desired 'rain weight' for each project.
Sneak peak!
Old screenshots (don't have the latest version running at the very moment, sorry):
The following screenshots show the old project-rain version, the pull request version auto-hides the fields when blank (so as to not immediately spam the profile view with crypto links).
User profile (self-view)
Browsing another user's profile
Example user xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<user>
<id>2</id>
<cpid></cpid>
<create_time>1497573052</create_time>
<name>derp</name>
<country>United Kingdom</country>
<bitshares>123</bitshares>
<steem></steem>
<gridcoin></gridcoin>
<ethereum></ethereum>
<ethereum_classic></ethereum_classic>
<golem></golem>
<nxt></nxt>
<ardor></ardor>
<hyperledger_sawtooth_lake></hyperledger_sawtooth_lake>
<hyperledger_fabric></hyperledger_fabric>
<hyperledger_misc></hyperledger_misc>
<waves></waves>
<peershares></peershares>
<omnilayer></omnilayer>
<counterparty></counterparty>
<peerplays></peerplays>
<storj></storj>
<nem></nem>
<ibm_bluemix_blockchain></ibm_bluemix_blockchain>
<coloredcoins></coloredcoins>
<heat_ledger></heat_ledger>
<antshares></antshares>
<lisk></lisk>
<decent></decent>
<synereo></synereo>
<lbry></lbry>
<wings></wings>
<hong></hong>
<boardroom></boardroom>
<expanse></expanse>
<akasha></akasha>
<cosmos></cosmos>
<metaverse></metaverse>
<zcash></zcash>
<stratis></stratis>
<echo></echo>
<tox></tox>
<retroshare></retroshare>
<wickr></wickr>
<ring></ring>
<pgp></pgp>
<total_credit>0</total_credit>
<expavg_credit>0</expavg_credit>
<expavg_time>1497573052</expavg_time>
<teamid>0</teamid>
<url></url>
<has_profile>0</has_profile>
</user>
Best regards,
@cm-teem