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Blockchain is a technology used to create distributed ledgers and to achieve consensus regarding data between distributed entities. Although the technology has been used to perform extremely computationally calculations involving cryptocurrency, its use in the scientific world has been limited.
In this paper we identify several possible use cases by which blockchain could be applied to scientific computing. These use cases include creating parallel computing systems from heterogeneous service providers, allowing for researchers to publish systems that allow service based architectures, integrating exotic technologies such as quantum computing, and archiving data and calculation chains to allow for reproduciblity of results.
We further detail the limitations and deficiencies of current blockchain systems for use to aid scientific supercomputing and propose characteristics of a blockchain systems which would be neccessary to support scientific supercomputing. Specifically we propose a blockchain protocol that would allow scientists to run existing scientific code in a distributed fashion.
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