bring folding@home into BOINC/Gridcoin

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

• see "FAH on BOINC" why they stopped
• recent explanation by @grctest:
  • "What's probably more feasible would be to extend the NN to folding@home, but it would require hardcoding within the client.
  • Alternatively, one could create a BOINC project, establish a method of proving FAH account ownership, then replicate their rewarded score into RAC?"

mentioned in hangout 6 at begin

[grctest]

I believe that the 18th Gridcoin Hangout might shine some light onto the feasibility of rewarding F@H via Gridcoin as we spoke with the Curecoin team. We should certainly encourage foldingcoin and curecoin to extend their reward mechanism to include the folding BOINC projects.

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

from chat:

Optilasgar: Folding@Home had a BOINC testing project once, but retired it and went back to their solo application. Why would they start a 2nd test?

• Erkan_Yilmaz: more pcs, faster reaching their goals
• and the info in link in the github says they had it in 2006, so in 10 years more things may have changed BOINC wise

[pwnorbitals]

Any updates from F@H ?

[tomasbrod]

I support this idea.

The problem is that Gridcoin's current NN system requires CPID to track work done by miner, which i believe Folding does not support.

If Account IDs are to replace CPIDs (SAAp), and DWPp is implemented, this could be very easy to implement on top of that system.