RE: Brainstorming new BOINC project ideas! Your ideas wanted!
Do you plan to start a BOINC server?
Not yet, no. I've come up with many ideas for projects (see linked past threads), but not implemented any yet. Possibly in a year or two's time.
A few days ago I have found two open source (sister) projects; they already use distributed computing and I've seen discussions about launching BOINC projects (to get more computing power), one of them even discussed launching own blockchain (to incentivize crunchers). They have vibrant communities and it would be a win-win situation if we could cooperate. (For them FLOPS, for us cooperation with similar communities and exposure to China and Korea, to name just a few). One of the hurdles would be anti-cheating measures, as doubling WUs would not work.
Sounds cool, though if the project is the distributor of rewards then their volunteers could be considered employees, no? I'd be interested in further researching their ideas though, can you name these projects?
Leela Zero is a community research in AI applied to game Go. Go is a big deal in Japan, China and Korea.
LeelaChessZero is a fork of the above / younger sibling.
There is a bunch of very smart people in both projects. We could count on strong synergy effect, if we could get into a relationship. As anti-cheating guard is not as easy as in other projects, implementation would be a step forward in distributed computing area and AI on BOINC platform. If you dig deeper, these projects have much more significance than appears on the surface.
The other idea I have for some time (and above just comes into that picture) is AI / machine learning on BOINC. Machine learning community is huge and has enormous hardware resources. Thus they could be both donors and receptors of compute resources. But other projects (Golem, Hadron) are working hard to get them on board - competition is strong.