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
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
Hinweis der Redaktion
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 !