Quote from: bible_pay on February 03, 2018, 02:33:00 PM

Distributed Computing Update for Cancer Research:

The project has quite a few hurdles, and some are very high indeed, but I feel optimistic that we will have a working cancer research system in testnet within 30 days.

I've eliminated centralized and private cancer research systems from the equation, for security concerns. The system that is most compatible for our altruistic ecosystem and from a security standpoint is Rosetta@Home.

David Anderson has replied (creator of the open infrastructure network computer grid) and gave instructions to submit our paper for peer review in the Journal of Grid Computing, and is on-board to help. I have not heard back from David Baker yet (Rosetta).

I'm working with Martin Grothe from Ruhr university on certifying the large issue that his crypto-security class discovered last year in distributed computing networks that affected one crypto. His team reverse engineered a key function which has later been plugged. Im sending him the algorithm and we will have the updated algorithm in testnet before going live with testing.

The non-technical version of the whitepaper is 70% complete. The whitepaper is 10% complete. We also need a user guide (0% complete).

However, where we have made significant progress is in the proof-of-concept for testnet.

There are several very high hurdles, and several low hurdles. The low hurdles include scalable research payments (IE superblocks), normalized daily researcher credit measurement files, disaster recovery modes, cosmetic provisioning, Sanctuary roles, etc. The higher level hurdles include: Custom UI for researcher association, Researcher security, Sanctuary Quorum Voting protocol, Anti-DDOS DC Grid for Credit Providers, Voting in the daily researcher file, Research Burn transactions and burn security, etc.

70% of the low level hurdles are programmed. 50% of the high level hurdles have been programmed.

Testnet Readiness Level: 65%.

Rob,

This is awesome progress in a very short amount of time. This is exactly the kind of spark that BBP needs! To that end, I have a friend who is in the medical device industry that could use the the cycles as well for cancer screening in oral/dental settings. Really cool stuff! In the future I can see cool things there

Also, pursuant to the pool stuff I can help with the pool project documentation and also helping on the systems administration side. Check your PM on Slack if you have a moment please. :-)

Thanks again for your hard work without which we wouldn't really be here!!