Before any of these projects are whitelisted lets observe and stress test them. The previous two whitelist additions were very messy, so extra caution would be nice.
I would like to see:
- Steady work outside the test batches
- A WU failure rate below 5%
- Actual research aims
- A stress test of the server that passed
I am happy to point my cluster at any new project suggestions for 6 hours or so to see if it keeps up before the Team Gridcoin wave arrives.
Your cluster basically IS the Team Gridcoin wave :D
Haha, maybe on the smaller projects. If I turn all my hardware to a bigger project such as SETI or Einstein it is hardly noticeable!
Yes, yes, we all know @dutch has a big one ;)
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Well "Actual research aims" is a rather loos term - i would consider "Enigma@home" and "Collatz Conjecture" as projects with no solid reseach aims. The one i trying to break a few crypto messages which will probably contribute nothing at all to history if we know there content. It will provide no additional knowleged about crypto.
Collatz i just itterating more and more integer Numbers and will find a sequence which is always reaching 1. It is very unlikely that if will lead to falsification of the collatz conjecture. It will not lead to a mathematical proove.
Both clearly have less scientific values than e.g. Rosetta or WCG even when they are sucessful.
This means one has to have clear rules what is an valid research aim. If you argue that Collatz and Enigma have a proper research aim one can accept nearly every project which has the aim to discover something with computer power.