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Today we have a rundown of the projects that can be worked on with Boinc and their eligibility to receive rewards through the Gridcoin whitelist.

The complete list of whitelisted projects can be found here:

http://gridcoin.us/Guides/whitelist.htm

Unfortunately there is not a written codified list of requirements that a project should meet to become whitelisted however consensus seems to suggest that projects should meet the following (in my opinion):

Must Meet

  • Has a steady flow of available work
  • Does not have significant periods without any work
  • Low application error rates
  • Allows new sign-ups
  • Fairly distributes work to all users
  • Has passed a vote to whitelist in the Gridcoin wallet

Should be considered (although not a blocker)

  • Connections are encrypted, SSL/TLS
  • Project admins are actively communicating
  • Has communication in English

So onto the projects:

At Risk

First we start with the projects that are currently whitelisted but are falling below the required standards. Unless things improve then these projects risk being voted for removal from the whitelist.


Project Name URL Outstanding Issues
DrugDiscovery@Home Link No work available for extended periods. Intermittent work for some platforms, No explanation from Project Admins.
Enigma@Home Link Limited work availability for Linux. No work available for CPU, GPU applications are not stable for some users

At this time all other whitelisted projects appear to be performing at an acceptable level.

Potential whitelist candidates

Now onto those projects which whilst not whitelisted are either to the same standard or very close to that of some of the whitelisted projects. Further engagement of these projects could see them being eligible to be voted into the whitelist.


Project Name URL SSL / TLS? Active Admin Work Flow Status App Stable? Comments
Distributed DataMining Link No Partial Good Yes None
ODLK & ODLK1

Link 1

Link 2

Yes Yes Good Yes ODLK is in Russian, new branch project ODLK1 is now in English.
RakeSearch Link Yes Yes Good Needs Testing Some users have reported errors in some work units, This needs testing.
Stop@Home Link No Partial Good Yes None

Projects not meeting requirements

These are current Boinc projects that are not included in the Gridcoin whitelist and for which you will not receive rewards for completing their work units. There are many reasons why projects may not be whitelisted so I have listed the main issues each project has that are stopping whitelisting.


Project Name URL SSL / TLS? Active Admin? Work Flow Status Comments
Acoustics @ Home Link No Yes None Recently Restarted, Currently no work
Albert @ Home Link Yes Yes Batch Recently Restarted, Dev Project for Einstein@Home
BURP Link Yes Yes Limited Very little work available
CAS @ HOME Link No No ??? Users reporting no work available
Climate Prediction Link Yes Yes Good Unreliable statistic exports1
Climate @ Home Link Yes Yes None Short Term project, currently Dormant
DENIS @ Home Link No No None Project Dormant
FiND @ Home Link No No None Project Dormant since GridRepublic takeover
Gerasim @ Home Link Yes Yes Good Mainly in Russian some info in English
GoofyxGrid @ Home NCI Link No Yes Good Not Computational
Leiden Classical Link Yes No Good Blocked new user sign-ups
LHC @ home-dev Link Yes Yes Batch Dev Project for LHC@Home
MindModeling @ Home Link Yes No Batch Intermittent work availability
Prima- boinca Link No No None Project Dormant or Retired
Quake Catcher Network Link No No Good Requires Special Hardware, Not Computational
Radioactive @ Home Link No No Good Requires Special Hardware, Not Computational
RALPH @ Home Link Yes Yes Batch Dev Project for Rosetta@Home
RNA World Link Yes Yes Limited Runs few extremely long work-units
SAT @ Home Link No No None Project Dormant or Retired
SETI @ Home Beta Link Yes Yes Batch Dev Project for Seti@Home
SZTAKI Desktop Grid Link No Yes Good Does not fairly distribute work2
WEP-M+2 Project [Link No Yes Good Can project handle influx of new crunchers?
WUProp @ Home Link Yes Yes Good Not Computational
XANSONS for COD Link Yes Yes Limited Main project complete

1Unreliable weekly statistic updates. Daily statistic updates under development
2Some users get lots of work others get none


Current Whitelisted Projects

For completeness sake here is the list of current whitelisted projects where not already mentioned. As previously mentioned some users have suggested that all projects should use encrypted connections so I have included that status along with the status of admin in the list below.


Project NameURLSSL/TLS?
Amicable NumbersLinkYes
Asteroids@HomeLinkNo
Citizen Science GridLinkYes
Collatz ConjectureLinkYes
Cosmology@HomeLinkYes
Einstein@HomeLinkYes
GPUGRIDLinkYes
LHC@HomeLinkYes
MilkyWay@homeLinkYes
Moo! WrapperLinkYes
NFS@HomeLinkYes
NumberFields@homeLinkYes
POGS (theSkyNet)LinkYes
PrimeGridLinkYes
Rosetta@HomeLinkYes
SETI@HomeLinkYes
SourcefinderLinkYes
SRBaseLinkNo
TN-GridLinkYes
Universe@HomeLinkYes
VGTU@HomeLinkYes
YAFULinkYes
Yoyo@homeLinkYes

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Very good rundown of the white-list. It is nice to support one another project. I hope these candidate projects will get on the white-list soon. Especially CPdN.
To formatting, It might be a steemit fault, but I find the rightmost column of the tables (the one with comments) too narrow and hard to read.

I've changed the method used to generate the table causing the biggest problem. Hopefully it should be better and more readable now.

Worthy information.
Keep on BOINCing!

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