RE: Why BOINC Will Never Run Out of Projects for Gridcoin to Work on

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Why BOINC Will Never Run Out of Projects for Gridcoin to Work on

in boinc •  8 years ago 

Do you know how to go about writing an application for BOINC? I do work in MRI, and would love to work on a project that facilitated distributed MRI and fMRI processing. As models become more sophisticated, universities are renting supercomputer time more and more to do tasks. I'm curious whether BOINC is a competitor to say, amazon AWS or if there are restrictions to what BOINC can do; how difficult is it to write an application for BOINC and get it started; and how does Gridcoin choose to whitelist a project.

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      ·  8 years ago 

    I am doing this right now for research into neuro-degenerative diseases, as our supercomputer (we had a BlueGene-P) was decommissioned.

    The two most timeconsuming steps as far as I am concerned are:

    • Breaking the problem down into manageable steps that can be processed in parallel. Obviously if your problem is 'embarrassingly parallel' (that is a technical term guys, i'm not being a douche) this is not a problem.

    • Wrapping the problem so that you get reasonable performance across many types of hardware. You could also choose to just wrap for GPUs if the sheer number of cores far outweighs the versatility of a CPU. I am still testing this one...

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      ·  8 years ago (edited)

    Great questions! The BOINC website has some resources (some of which look pretty old) and if your interest is in medicine, contacting World Community Grid might be a good idea. Someone on here can probably give a better answer to this part, but Gridcoin chooses whitelist projects through a voting process. Projects that make it tend to do involve beneficial research with fairly steady available work units that BOINC users have equal access to.
    https://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc.pdf
    https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectMain#CreatingaBOINCproject
    http://www.gridcoin.us/Guides/whitelist.htm

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