ODLK - Your vote is needed.

Gridcoin is currently voting to whitelist the ODLK BOINC project and your help is needed, currently the vote only has 48 votes making up 3.13% of the available Gridcoin voting weight.

https://www.gridcoinstats.eu/poll/whitelist_poll:_odlk

Make YOUR voice heard and vote.

Seriously, this and other votes are built into the blockchain and you can drive the direction of Gridcoin.

The Project

The ODLK project is primarily Russian and therefore communicates primarily in Russian.

Please do not take the use of Russian as a negative, we are an internatioanal community and I do not expect everyone to support English, please note I am English (British).

These quotes are Google translated which is pretty good (Original Russian text is included) :

English

"In this project, a database of canonical forms (CR) of diagonal Latin squares (DLK) of the 10th order having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLK) is compiled. The necessary definitions for the topic can be found here:"

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_square

"The first three orthogonal pairs of DLK were found in 1992, they were published in the article "Completion of the Spectrum of Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares" (J. W. Brown et al.)."

"In the years between 2012 to 2016. There was a scientific BOINC project SAT@home, in which new orthogonal pairs of DLK of the 10th order were searched."

• http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/

"In this project there was found 77 unique orthogonal pairs of DLK, which gave 154 unique KF ODLK. You can see the solutions found in the SAT@home project here:"

• http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/solutions.php

Россия

"В проекте составляется база данных канонических форм (КФ) диагональных латинских квадратов (ДЛК) 10-го порядка, имеющих ортогональные диагональные латинские квадраты (ОДЛК). Необходимые определения по теме можно найти здесь: "

• https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Латинский квадрат

"Первые три ортогональные пары ДЛК были найдены в 1992 году, они опубликованы в статье “Completion of the Spectrum of Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares” (J. W. Brown и другие). "

"В 2012-2016 гг. действовал научный BOINC-проект SAT@home, в котором искались новые ортогональные пары ДЛК 10-го порядка."

• https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT@home

"В данном проекте были найдены 77 уникальных ортогональных пар ДЛК, которые дали 154 уникальные КФ ОДЛК. Можно посмотреть решения, найденные в проекте SAT@home, здесь:"

• http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/solutions.php

Personal Opinion

My personal opinion is that we should whitelist this project and I have voted as such. The current arguments I have heard against whitelisting have been:

• The project only communicates in Russian
  • As mentioned above, I believe we should be open internationally and shouldn't be demanding English as a primary language, I would say we should encourage it, but it should not be a requirement.
  • There are many online translation programs available online, this is not a blocker in the modern world.

• The project doesn't have enough work
  • The project has 116519 work units in the queue and 32314 in progress.
  • The average runtime of workunits in hours are:
    • odlk3 = 0.43
    • odlkmin = 0.45
  • These workunit times and amounts of workunits are in line with other whitelisted projects meaning that there is plenty of work (Please compare ODLK vs DrugDiscovery and Enigma in the links below)
    • https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/server_status.php
    • https://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/server_status.php
    • http://www.enigmaathome.net/server_status

• They are damn Commies and they mean to destroy us all!! (Joke before anyone complains)
  • This type of argument shouldn't need a rebuttal.
  • Please judge the work to the same standards you would anyone elses.
  • If you have a personal objection, then just don't crunch for them, whitelisting doesn't mean you have to crunch for this project.

Please vote and/or state your comments and arguments.

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