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RE: BOINC - Impressive Accomplishments and Incredible Potential
In 2016 a twitter follower linked me up to BOINC. I was (and am still) naive to how the whole concept worked, so I never installed or used the software.
Your post does give a good overview, but I still pointless about how me turning on my mac with this software running will help a scientist somewhere! And what is Gridcoin? Is it like slushpool?
Still confused. But seems like a project good at heart. So I went ahead and installed it now. Is there a video that can explain BOINC/ Gridcoin please?
There are lots of educational videos on YouTube; I'm not sure which is the best: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boinc+gridcoin
Basically, lots of scientists have research that is very computationally intensive and BOINC provides a cheap way for them to get their data processed. Example: Say a researcher wants to run the same chemical property modelling analysis on 300,000 molecules. Any computer that downloads the modelling tool can analyze one or more molecules and send that data back to the scientist. Even if we each only process 10 molecules, the scientist will eventually get all of his data processed without having to use a supercomputer (or 100 years of time on his own personal computer). BOINC makes it easy (almost automatic) to pick projects to help.
Gridcoin rewards people who BOINC with Gridcoin through Proof Of Research (which is the mining step for GRC).