Podcast: Alex Leverington - Blockchain Supercomputer
Alex Leverington is their lead P2P dev and also an Ethereum core dev. He’s done major work on rlpx, web3, and whisper. Shh, enough bitcoin noise. What‘s happening on the Ethereum Network? Alex Leverington from the Golem project joins Corey and Dee to talk about distributed computing. WTF is distributed computing? Listen to the episode and find out, duh. You’ll hear Corey in his element talking about coding and programing, which gives him the upper hand in this almost interrogation like interview. Alex does a fantastic job answering each question in full detail. Unfortunately some of this....
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Arctur-1, a supercomputer in Slovenia which is used by scientific and technical users, has announced that they will accept Bitcoin for computing services. The Arctur computer itself boasts impressive stats ” Arctur-1 was built with 84 IBM iDataPlex dx360 M3 nodes, each with two Intel Xeon X5650 cores (6 cores clocked at 2,66 GHz) for a total of 1008 cores, 2,66 terabytes of memory (2,66 gigabytes per core), reaching a peak processing power of 10 TFlops (Rpeak). Compute nodes are connected with Infiniband QDR 40 Gbit/s, The supercomputer is managed by Arctur.” I interviewed Arctur CTO Marko....
You’re watching Bitcoinist weekly news bits. Today we’re gonna deal with supercomputers, Mastercard and bitcoin sms. A Public Supercomputer. Zennet is the worlds first public supercomputer. It is a decentralized peer-to-peer platform that lets anyone rent out and profit from their computation power. The company aims to create the world’s biggest decentralized supercomputer, accessible to anyone around the globe. Zennet will run on a blockchain. Anyone with computation power can offer it to the public, and anyone who needs computation power can bid on this power. The bidder will pay for her....
Exascale Power Co., a Portland, Ore. -based company that plans to build a supercomputer in New Mexico, has released more details about its plan to boost the power of the block chain processing infrastructure. Highlights include: - The company plans to increase block sizes from 1MB to 36MB, providing processing in under 10 minutes. - Exascale is introducing a new cryptocurrency called Kalbon. For the time being, the company is offering free Kalbon to anyone requesting it. Miners will have 1MB block sizes to start with and will be eligible for financing to upgrade to 36MB Kalbon. - The....
Freya Stevens is creator and host of the BitcoinUkPodcast. BitcoinUkMedia is a cryptocurrency podcast for the United Kingdom. Started by Freya Stevens earlier this year the podcast now has 10 episodes focusing mainly on interviews with those involved in the cryptocurrency community. Freya was kind enough to answer a few questions about the podcast. Who are you and what is you history with cryptocurrency?
Bitcoin and the concept of decentralization made many things possible, such as Bitnation, a decentralized government. I have recently gotten the chance to talk to some people behind Zennet, the worlds first public super computer. 1. What is Zennet? Zennet is a decentralized peer-to-peer platform that lets anyone rent out and profit from their idle computation power, and anyone rent this power. 2. What does it aim to achieve? Zennet aims to create the world’s biggest decentralized supercomputer, accessible to anyone around the globe. 3. How does it plan on doing just that? Zennet will run....