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$1000 for making HTML5 supercomputing applications open source
- wldlyinaccurate 12y agoThe CrowdProcess team are doing some really interesting stuff. Essentially, they're making distributed computing more readily available than it has ever been -- if you can write JavaScript, you can dive into distributed computing. And with browsers advancing so rapidly, I'm really excited about what will be possible on this front in a couple of years time. Imagine being able to run computations on thousands of GPUs without having to distribute any software (think Folding@home, SETI@home, etc).
- martinald 12y agoCool concept, but morally dubious. You're basically using people's electricity in the background without people knowing, not unlike bitcoin miner malware.
- taumhn 12y agoNot to mention bandwidth which can in some cases be pretty expensive.
- pgfonseca 12y agoCurrently blocking 3g and 4g (all mobile devices in fact), and working to block satellite internet.
- pgfonseca 12y agoThe plan is to recover unused cycles, and ask the websites who power the platform to add a link to the opt in/out https://ss.crowdprocess.com/opt-out.html https://ss.crowdprocess.com/opt-out.html Having said that, I am the first to admit that many websites aren't currently displaying this, we need to work on that.
- wldlyinaccurate 12y agoIt's extra work for website owners to build/test/maintain opt-out functionality. Have you considered offering a pre-built opt in/out widget which can be re-styled and integrated easily? Or you could even just provide website owners with a "global opt-out" URL that they can stick in their footer.
- pgfonseca 12y agoThis link is a global opt-out :) We don't want anyone on the platform who isn't aware/comfortable with it. Our instructions to the websites (when they join) are to create a link to the opt out page. I supposed it could be a direct opt out
- plam 12y agoIt seems one of the biggest business issues is site visitor perception. I have a couple questions please. What's your opt-rate rate so far out of the sites that have shown this option? do you have any real data regarding hidden cost to a site visitor? like power consumption A/B testing or something?
- pgfonseca 12y agoThe opt out rate has been close to 0, but (in all fairness) that has been due to the way websites choose to display it. A standard for how to display might be called for, perhaps?
- martinald 12y agoWhat do you mean? Unused cycles makes no sense. I'd be really annoyed if my laptop's battery life drops from 5 hours browsing the web to 1hour because it is running at 100% all the time due to this.
- consta 12y agoIs there a deadline until you can submit ideas and their solutions?
- pgfonseca 12y agoNo deadline, but ideas have to be original, so first applications are the ones that count :)