Perlin
Decentralized Privacy Preserving Supercomputer
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The modern era scientific breakthroughs and their industry applications led us to achieve a greater quality of life. Advanced scientific research in numerous academic fields and industry sectors ( genetic sequencing, machine learning, protein folding…) is based on high-performance computing performed by supercomputers that are owned by centralized powers owning millions of servers and computers around the world.
Perlin enables and democratizes access to large amounts of underutilized compute power for startups, enterprises, researchers, developers, students and advocates working with large amounts of potentially sensitive data for the sake of hastening the advancement of technology.
Following the idea of decentralization and evolution of modern age digital infrastructure and information, Perlin strong fundamental idea and goal is very impressive and we believe that Perlin is a strong candidate to be a next Supercomputer 3.0.
Perlin — a Supercomputer 3.0? What does it really mean?
When talking about Supercomputer 3.0 we need to point to similar reference to Web1.0 ->Web 3.0 transition we discussed in our Haja Networks article.
The first robust computers started to appear in the second half of the 20th century and we can call this long period a Supercomputer 1.0 era. When big corporations took over the research and development and centralized processing farms with cloud computing appeared, the current era of powerful Supercomputer 2.0 started.
Perlin protocol
Perlin is a distributed ledger, hardening and generalizing the Avalanche consensus protocol: a partially-synchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol built on a metastable mechanism over a directed-acyclic-graph (DAG) to achieve extremely high throughput and scalability.
Perlin consists of three core parties:
- the validators — nodes of an asynchronous byzantine fault-tolerant distributed ledger that stores immutable records of events that occur within Perlin’s network. They are are responsible for verifying, timestamping, ingesting, and forwarding events over to other actors within Perlin’s system.
- the miners — nodes that provide underutilized computing resources in the form of virtualized container instances. They are selling their computing power to clients and solve cryptographic puzzles to prove to the network that they truly have provided the computing resources they claim they are providing.
- the clients — nodes that develop, utilize, and deploy decentralized applications and computing tasks within Perlin’s network. Clients purchase available computing resources off miners, defining specific resource requirements they require for tasks that they wish to run on Perlin’s network. Clients are the arbiters for how tasks are defined and executed off provisioned computing resources and are responsible for generating and assessing cryptographic puzzles which miners are to complete.
Whitepaper
While unofficial version 0.1 is circling thru crypto channels, the rumour is that in next few weeks official and expanded Whitepaper will be out. For the same reason, we try to restrain from speculation based on other articles unofficial technical details and will wait until the official version is out.
Team
Dorjee Sun, CEO — experienced blockchain crypto project operator, sales & strategy
Kenta Iwasaki, CTO — experienced developer, distributed systems & crypto networks
Mizra Uddin — Business Development
Prof. Anup Malani — research, strategic & commercial partnerships global lead
Dr. Taylor Sittler - research, strategic & commercial partnerships america lead
Vincent Zhou - advisor, founding partner FBG capital, leading global crypto fund
Taiyang Zhang — advisor, CEO of Republic blockchain developer, hacker, investor
Social media
- Website: http://perlin.net/
- Medium: https://medium.com/perlin-network
- Telegram: https://t.me/perlinnetwork
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/PerlinNetwork
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/perlin.network/
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