Need new tasks on Medical, or just new projects in general?

[cellarnoise]

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I have spent some time recently and last year to try to get organizations, to try to use volunteer DC or BOINC in general. Now there might be a little interest, but not enough to get an actual project off the ground. It does cost a great deal of brain, to get the whole package together to start a new DC / Boinc project...

 

[Grimlakin]

Man I literally have 3 servers with 512 gig of ram ans 36 cores doing nothing. Tempted to do this and see if anyone says boo. Lol. Would need to throw a vm on each only thing preventing me is the vmware licensing trolls.

 

[Skillz]

Just run them bare metal. A lot cheaper.

 

[StefanR5R]

Need new tasks on Medical,

Folding@Home always has work. (Of course one caveat is that they have their own client software, and another: While they hand out both CPU work and GPU work, the former receives very little credit compared to the other even though it stands on its own scientifically. IOW donating CPU time to F@H is only for those who don't mind that their contribution remains invisible in public, practically invisible even within the F@H community itself. Even donating GPU time is not a thankful job if it isn't with a modern && big GPU, due to their nonlinear crediting scheme.)

It is sad that IBM no longer funds and staffs World Community Grid. I may be wrong because I got into DC only less than 9 years ago, but I think in IBM's days, WCG always had work. (Not just medical, but the biggest part has been medical.)

I have spent some time recently and last year to try to get organizations, to try to use volunteer DC or BOINC in general.

Getting more scientists (who require computing power) into Distributed Computing is certainly hard for two reasons: First, technical — their workloads may not be easy to divide into a large number of individually small workunits. Second, social/ organizational — they would have to build and maintain a community of volunteers yet would have little control over how much work can be done in which time frame. (And a third aspect is that all the science which is done commercially is quite incompatible with volunteer computing.)

Regarding the social/ organizational aspect: Back when WCG was a solidly funded and staffed project, it provided scientists an alternative to setting up an own Distributed Computing infrastructure...