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 | 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 Name | URL | SSL/TLS? |
|---|---|---|
| Amicable Numbers | Link | Yes |
| Asteroids@Home | Link | No |
| Citizen Science Grid | Link | Yes |
| Collatz Conjecture | Link | Yes |
| Cosmology@Home | Link | Yes |
| Einstein@Home | Link | Yes |
| GPUGRID | Link | Yes |
| LHC@Home | Link | Yes |
| MilkyWay@home | Link | Yes |
| Moo! Wrapper | Link | Yes |
| NFS@Home | Link | Yes |
| NumberFields@home | Link | Yes |
| POGS (theSkyNet) | Link | Yes |
| PrimeGrid | Link | Yes |
| Rosetta@Home | Link | Yes |
| SETI@Home | Link | Yes |
| Sourcefinder | Link | Yes |
| SRBase | Link | No |
| TN-Grid | Link | Yes |
| Universe@Home | Link | Yes |
| VGTU@Home | Link | Yes |
| YAFU | Link | Yes |
| Yoyo@home | Link | Yes |
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