The iEx.ec Distributed Cloud: Latest Developments and Perspectives
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The document discusses the iEx.ec Distributed Cloud, which allows blockchain applications to access off-chain computing resources through a market network built on the Ethereum blockchain. Key points include: - iEx.ec creates a decentralized marketplace where computing resources like servers, apps, and data can be advertised and provisioned directly through smart contracts. - This provides transparency, security, and no single point of failure compared to traditional clouds. - The technology builds on decades of research in desktop grid computing and volunteer computing to execute tasks in a highly secure and scalable way. - An initial proof-of-concept allows generation of custom Bitcoin addresses through parallel processing of tasks.
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The iEx.ec Distributed Cloud: Latest Developments and Perspectives
- 1. Gilles Fedak (gf@iex.ec) http://iex.ec The iEx.ec Distributed Cloud: Latest Developments and Perspectives
- 2. The Crew Founders Gilles Haiwu Scientists Mircea Oleg CathyEster Beijing Office Jose Mehdi Heithem Hamid Core Developers Marketing & Community Jorge
- 3. Global Market for Computing Resources Low cost, Secure and Scalable Decentralized Cloud • Market Network based on the Ethereum blockchain • Computing resources are advertized through smart contracts deployed on the blockchain • Applications/users can provision resources directly from the blockchain • Applications/data/servers • Blockchain provides • Decentralized market place (no trusted authority) • Transparency, traceability, security
- 4. For which Applications ? • Blockchain-based Distributed Application (Dapps) – iEx.ec provides access to off-chain computing resources: • servers (CPU & GPU), applications, data-sets • Legacy applications – High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data • Simulations, 3D rendering, bio-medical research, analytics, machine learning, finance, business intelligence scientific computing, etc… • Emerging distributed applications – when the centralized Cloud become a bottleneck ! • IoT + Big Data, Fog/EDGE Computing, micro-services, distributed machine learning, ambiant IA, VR,, and more…
- 5. The iEx.ec Distributed Cloud Toward Ultra scalable system : Perf., cost, energy, trust GFlops Ultra-Scalable System: Performance, Cost, Power, Trust, … Watts Energy Positive Worker Distributed Data Centers GPU Mining Farm
- 6. Origin of the Technology : Desktop Grid Computing Using Idle PCs on the Internet to Execute Parallel Applications : • Mature technology • Advanced features: security, virtualization, QoS • Many applications : Finance, Bio-medical, Chemistry, High Energy Physics etc… • European Desktop Grid Infrastructure • http://desktopgridfederation.org Volunteer Computing XtremWeb-HEP • Grid & Cloud • Highly secure • Virtualization • Hybrid public/private Infrastructure
- 8. Generation of Vanity Bitcoin Address • Bitcoin address that starts with a specified pattern – too intensive to run on-chain, trivial parallelism –same pattern for many crypto related issues: • altcoin relay, homomorphic computing, zk-snarks, etc… • RLC Token: fully ERC20 compliant + Safe Math 1SFYLchkShTD5DSDRYdr92e……. DApp http://52.44.51.109:8080/ RLC Faucetuser Ethereum Faucet SC Token SC Spender Allowance Bitadress.org Priv/pub key vanity pattern Vanity + Pub/priv Vanity Task SC Off-chain Worker provisioning ¶llel task execution
- 11. Roadmap Conclusion iEx.ec distributed cloud : • allows blockchain-based application to access off-chain computing resources • use the Ethereum to create a market network of computing resource White paper/Token release • join our slack ! iEx.ec: Greener & Smarter Cloud Computing
Editor's Notes
- My name is Gilles Fedak. I am a researcher at INRIA, which is the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science. My research background is in Parallel and Distributed Computing with a focus on building Distributed Computing Infrastructure based on machines distributed on the Internet . This is a joint work with Pr. Haiwu He who is with the Chinese Academy of Science. This talk is about how to build a Distributed Cloud based on the Ethereum blockchain. The goal is also to give some perspective from the infrastructure point a vue.
- Haiwu He Pr. Chinese Academy of Science
- Let’s take advantage of the blockchain and organize a global market for Computing resources. We can think it as akind of airbnb for computing resources. Every body would be able to provide or to rent its computing node. And so that would form a sort of Distributed Cloud, in the sense that you go on the blockchain and you get ther resources on-demand through smart contracts on a pay-as-you-go basis. And the good thing with this idea is distributed cloud is actually very timely.
- Actually the technology to build the distributed cloud is already there. At the origin, it was called Desktop Grid Computing. The principle is to use Destop Pcs, on the Internet, when there are idle to execute large parallel applications.
- As a conclusion infrastructure matters ! Decentralizing the Cloud, it’s also an opportunity to switch to a new model that canbe radically different. And why not a cloud that is energy positive, that produces more energy than it consumes !
- The last step in our use case is to use the Stimergy computing resource. Stimergy is doing servers that serve as furnaces. So the heat of the processors is used tore-warm the water in a building. We hope to acheive a demo by November the first smart contract that can warm a swimning pool as a side-effect.
- As a conclusion infrastructure matters ! Decentralizing the Cloud, it’s also an opportunity to switch to a new model that canbe radically different. And why not a cloud that is energy positive, that produces more energy than it consumes !