On 22-Oct-2014 11:57 AM,
cnt@czechnationalteam.cz wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to address the leaders of main BOINC teams and Mr. David Anderson as
well, as I have been appointed to lead the discussion regarding the project Bitcoin
Utopia.
We have recently been watching the current events with the project of BOINC with
great dissatisfaction.
The recent events that have been damaging the whole BOINC, degrading the results of
dozens of projects for more than last ten years and demotivating common users.
We would like to appeal as follows:
1.
Distributed computing was based on using the residual computer power/output for
human progress in many fields of scientific research. During many years,
hundreds of thousands people have joined the project and the possibility to
compare the performance within the projects has been one of the biggest
advantage of the BOINC system.
Rating each of the project has been so far in some bounds and there has not been any
degradation in credit in global statistics there. Even after computations coming on
GPU, the evaluation still corresponded with hardware increasing in output and a lot
of projects are still taking advantage of that.
But the Project Bitcoin Utopia is out of any standards having been built several
years. Its evaluation exceeds several times compare to other BOINC projects. The
statistic data, having been gathered in many years, is completely destroyed and it
does not have any sense.
During several weeks of running the ASIC devices the total credit from Bitcoin
Utopia is 1/3 to other BOINC projects and this rate is continuously increasing.
2.
The aim of the project is not useful. Neither for scientific purposes nor for
mankind at all.
It is just a commercial project that does not have any sense in the system of BOINC.
Firstly, the founders of the project are the only one who have the biggest profit
from it and they make a profit with a disproportion to the owners of BC pools.
Secondly, funding provided to the projects is also very controversial.
Funding flowing to the projects is lower than expenditures on the energy used.
From this point of view I am asking: “ What is that project useful for in the
system of BOINC? Why should we, thanks to it, let the whole system of BOINC destroy ? â€
3.
Evaluation of the project might be the main problem. Conducted work on the
project of Bitcoin Utopia as far as power/output is several times higher
comparing to CPU or GPU. But it is not the output in FLOPS that the rate has
been calculated in BOINC so far. The same over evaluation could have been used
in any other projects such as QCN, for example, or the project Radioactive and
by this way to bound to frequency of tremors on the measured radiation – just to
make up whatever and then give reasons for that.
The same way, for example, we should provide some bonus in our project Asteroid for
its users who then can find a model of ideal asteroid.
Is there any use for BOINC?
The owners of the projects have always kept some moral rules so far and they have
been in some devaluation bounds in their evaluation.
Let’s do something together so that we will stop this devaluation activities of
Bitcoin Utopia, retroactively reset to a natural level or just remove the project
from global statistics at BOINCSTATS or FREE-DC.
Let’s make some clear rules for future.
Nobody wants to devaluate our long term activities and effort, to discourage
longstanding users and to suppress or even to destroy the whole BOINC .
Dear colleagues, before your replying to this appeal, try to consult the matter
first within your team and do not express just your personal opinion on that.
Try to express the opinion of the whole team, like I am doing right now here on
behalf of Czech National Team o.p.s.
With Kind Regards,
Dušan Vykouřil
director of Czech National Team o. p. s.