RE: Brainstorming new BOINC projects!
Google's Tensorflow - Distributed Machine Intelligence
TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API. TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google's Machine Intelligence research organization for the purposes of conducting machine learning and deep neural networks research, but the system is general enough to be applicable in a wide variety of other domains as well.
TensorFlow has recently released distributed computing support, an enterprising prospective BOINC project administrator could create a TensorFlow BOINC project in which a customer submits machine learning code to be distributed onto thousands of CPUs/GPUs/phones for a fee of which 95% would be distributed to the project's crunchers and 5% taken for the project maintenance costs.
Since TensorFlow is a Google/Alphabet product, it might bring some serious attention to BOINC/Gridcoin.
This.
I can crunch BOINC 24/7 for weeks without problems, but I can't train my TensorFlow model faster than my computer allows it.
If it can be done in a way that I can "accumulate" resources in the form of GRC to then exchange it for real resources, it will drag LOTS of attention from the machine learning community. There is nothing like this out there.
It would be pretty neat, eh?
I wonder what machine learning models people would submit to such a project? (SkyNet? :P)
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