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SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by ahmedbodi »

slg wrote: post #6
ldayley wrote: post #3

Anectdata: I set up an old computer with this in 2009, but a few months later I heard about this thing called cryptocurrency mining... EDIT: The article notes that they are reaching a point of diminishing returns with the distributed nature of the SETI@HOME tasks, but I can't help wondering if things like crypto had an impact on participation with this and other @HOME-style academic projects[0]. [0]: https://boinc.be…

I'm not an expert in either this or cryptocurrency, but it always seemed like these two would be a good marriage of technologies rather than having crypto mining rigs waste resources on unproductive proof of work algorithms. Does anyone know why that wasn't feasible or didn't catch on?

It's already been done in 2 projects. One called Curecoin and another called FoldingCoin, kinda niche i guess. didnt really catch on

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by wtallis »

alliao wrote: post #28
cptskippy wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Duron Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Duron, the poorerer man's Celeron.

Celeron 300A, the relative poorer man's Pentium

Weren't they also supported by the Abit BP6 motherboard, letting you use two of them as poorer man's Xeons?

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by Forbo »

ahmedbodi wrote: post #32
slg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not an expert in either this or cryptocurrency, but it always seemed like these two would be a good marriage of technologies rather than having crypto mining rigs waste resources on unproductive proof of work algorithms. Does anyone know why that wasn't feasible or didn't catch on?

It's already been done in 2 projects. One called Curecoin and another called FoldingCoin, kinda niche i guess. didnt really catch on

There's GridCoin, as well, which utilizes BOINC for work units.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by Forbo »

sprash wrote: post #29
sjburt wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Proof of work relies on computations that are hard to do but easy to check that someone has done. The entire network has to check someone's proposed result. There are very few computations that have sufficient asymmetry to the degree needed to make bitcoin work, and the types of things that SETI@home needs don't fit that bill.

The projects Primecoin and Riecoin are digital currencies that try to provide proof of work algorithms with (somewhat) scientific value.

There's GridCoin, as well, which utilizes BOINC for work units.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by chapium »

dpcx wrote: post #18

I remember being a younger pup and building fleets of machines (including overclocking, etc) for the sole purpose of running S@H, and all of the amazing software the spun up around it... SetiSpy, SetiDriver, SetiQ. I often wonder how machines of today would compare in work production to my old Duron 800, but alas.

Ah the fabled durito.
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