Golem Unlimited utilizes trusted heterogeneous computing resources which are part time idle. It is meant for data center-like setup (e.g., render farms, or desktops within organisation LAN) where network participants trust each other, but it will also support trusted P2P subnetworks (e.g., distributed team machines).
It features the hub acting as a requestor and additional worker nodes in the hub’s trusted network acting as providers.
Trust within Golem Unlimited subnetwork allows simplifying its design and taking care of only the computation layer. Other components such as economic layers, reputation systems, verification algorithms, and sandboxing (in contrast to the public Golem Network) can be skipped altogether or implemented optionally.
Golem Unlimited joint resources can be used to perform tasks for internal requestor - the hub operator - with no fee. At the same time the hub will be able to expose its subordinate trusted providers to the public Golem Network. In such a setting hub will act as a provider and earn GNTs.
The latter broadens Golem Network reach, because it currently supports just single machine nodes. With Golem Unlimited it would allow more complex components, such as a whole subnetworks.
Golem Unlimited offers three execution environments:
- host direct -- which does not provide any sandboxing, and requires application integrator to prepare binaries for every operating system
- docker -- integrator needs to prepare single docker image with application
- gWASM -- integrator needs to compile desired app to WASM target and conform to gWASM format
Most current integration for Golem Unlimited is gwasm-runner which utlise gWASM execution environment and provides simplistic API that resembles map-reduce paradigm. It enables developers to easily implement simple applications and run them on top of the Golem Unlimited and also on Brass Golem 0.21 and later.
There are more integrations being prepared (outside Golem Unlimited team by with our support). To list a few:
- gumpi - MPI implemented on top of Golem Unlimited, utilising docker execution environment
- Hoard Compiler - Distributed C++ compiler for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019, which supports host direct mode only for Windows 10.
Initially we have prepared plugins for two use cases:
- Integer factorization - a "Hello World" for Golem Unlimited
- Mining - just to showcase the Golem Unlimited, not a industry grade minig solution
Here you can watch a short demo with above two: https://youtu.be/J0LBdg2j6Tk They are not maitained any more.
Please bear in mind that Golem Unlimited is in its Alpha stage.
Currently we support Hub only on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and later.
To install Hub you can use the released Ubuntu deb.
To run Hub on other OS Plaforms refer the Hub README.
To install Provider you can use the released MacOs dmg, Windows msi or Ubuntu deb packages.
See the Provider README for build instructions.
Both hub and provider can be configured via CLI. Invoke them with help
command to see what's possible.
The hub comes also with web UI at:
http://<hub-ip>:61622/app/index.html
ethkey: Ethereum keys managementgu-actix: small util crate defining flatten trait for ActixWeb futuregu-base: implementation of common parts of Provider and Hub serversgu-event-bus: event-bus implementation - publish-subscribe communication between componentsgu-hardware: discovery of hardware resources - GPU, disk space, RAMgu-hub: binary of Hub servergu-lan: mDNS services discoverygu-net: network layer of the applicationgu-persist: filesystem, persistent storage of filesgu-provider: binary of Provider servicegu-envman-api: data structures used in communication with execution enviroment component on provider side.
Here you can find information in order to give us feedback and contribute to the project.