Quote from: housepanda on December 22, 2017, 01:27:07 PM

Quote from: paniczklos on December 22, 2017, 09:59:19 AM

Are You considering any cooperation with Universities/Science computing programs or will the full unused computing power will be used for mining ?

You get a claming code form the bot, I guess tou'll have to use it later when the website / ICO are up and running. ( you get double free tokens if You participate in the ICO, hence my guess)

Thank you for the very interesting question.
For us, mining is just the easiest way to utilize unused processing power.
However, there is a whole spectrum of other ways as to how this unused power can be utilized. One use case is of course universities that cannot afford a supercomputer of their own purchasing access to House Panda (paid in HPT) on a monthly basis.
Not having to pay for the roughly 1/2 or 1/3 of the year when students are on vacation would be a great-enough saving, plus the advantages of not having to deal with procurement, public funding, hardware depreciation and so on. Let's face it - only a tiny handful of countries have supercomputers present in the global Top 500 (more than half of those are in China).
According to Quora, there are probably around 40,000 universities in the world: https://www.quora.com/How-many-universities-are-there-in-the-US-and-the-world-and-whats-the-best-resource-to-find-this-data Clearly, that is a huge potential institutional user base of House Panda.
And beyong universities, there are many other organizations and businesses who would enjoy acesss to supercomputing if they only had the opportunity.

Relatedly, we expect to have close cooperation with 1-2 world-leading universities as well as with others in a variety of fields, from IP development to staff training. We started conversations with several in Summer 2017.

You are correct regarding claim codes. You will be able to use them during the ICO and also at any time after the ICO to get access to your tokens.

That's great. I see another potential part of the market that could make it more profitable than mining ( of course altcoin/token market is not yet seen as credible payment method but it will change Wink

especially with stable altcurrencies). I'm an FEA engineer, and we're struggling for ~6 years to have a computing cluster purchase order signed by our CFO, so having some ready to rent CPU/GPU power could be great.
Of course some FEA vendors are doing it on their own, for example Autodesk have "Cloud credits" which allow you to run your analysis on their cloud (or Amazon EC2 - I don't really know who owns the actual HW

). On the other hand I don't know the "size" of the hardware behind such a service.