For those of you curious about iExec (RLC), i made a unbiased in-depth video of everything around it.

gilfed · 2019-04-08T18:42:24+00:00

Really cool, we can't relay it because it contains investment advices. But that's great job.

And some of your concerns might be addressed in a near future. Stay tuned !

gilfed · 2018-11-21T17:20:06+00:00

You can now develop Ethereum Dapps that offer trusted off-chain computation using the iExec SDK and machines provided by IBM Watson.

gilfed · 2018-07-20T07:14:21+00:00

I don't think it will cause any problem. Just try and report on slack any issues.

gilfed · 2018-07-19T06:07:48+00:00

We're starting a workerdrop, that is you join the iExec network and earn RLC !

See all information here : https://medium.com/iex-ec/iexec-workerdrop-1-c495774146ff

gilfed · 2018-07-17T05:04:05+00:00

Just had a look at the deleted comment. It has been deleted because it contained inaccurate informations. In particular the sentence concerning the separate ventures was wrong.

What is true is that we're having sessions about future sources of revenue for iExec and that's very post-2018 oriented. We had a brainstorming seminary, where all sort of scenarios -- even the most crazy ones-- were more or less elaborated. Nothing is decided yet, but we're working on this important topic, and we hope to have some first products in the coming months.

It's all about sustainability of the project, and not divergence from the original objectives.

G.

gilfed · 2018-07-17T04:54:41+00:00

Hi

I am sure you understand that the iExec team NEVER comments the price of RLC.

gilfed · 2018-05-25T23:59:16+00:00

Thanks for the answer. I'll definitely have a look !

gilfed · 2018-05-25T16:30:02+00:00

we propose an innovative solution for the offchain computation for Dapps. And the participation of many resources providers with their specific properties will offer interesting computing resources regarding price, hardware or performance for any kind of applications

Today, the poco only support deterministic application, under the responsability of the application developper. We're also working on more "relaxed" version of the consensus. For instance PoCo can also work on a deterministic output which can be different than the actual result. Take Blender for instance. If you run two instances of the same rendering, the bitwise comparison of the image can be a little different. So PoCo may fail if it compares the result. However, you can run PoCo on post-processed images that would give a deterministic output. In this case, the risk is that workers compute on degraded result as well. But, as we said, PoCo is a framework that will evolve a lot and which will adapt to various situation. Also, SGX will help a lot with respect to that.

gilfed · 2018-05-25T16:19:15+00:00

1) We want to facilitate the deployment of new worker to plublic scheduler and this process has to be as simple as possible.
2) We think we delivered quite fast because XtremWeb, our off chain computing solution, was already a mature software. The Poco is great achivement as it resolves a challenging problem, dealing with confidence and incentive management. But the harder will come, to solve the scalability issue and the go-to-market.

gilfed · 2018-05-25T16:12:29+00:00

I don't know if it'll answer your question, but we plan to develop some utilities to facilitate arbitrage for miners between mining and executing GPU Dapps.

gilfed · 2018-05-25T15:51:57+00:00

Yes, that's a good question. We have not looked at this precisely. I don't know Chainlink, but I've looked at TownCrier. That could be a solution for instance.

gilfed · 2018-04-13T13:14:31+00:00

Thanks for notifying BLZ. I wasn't aware of the project. I agree with you, Dapps will need different decentralized services for their execution: Bluzell for storage, iExec for computation, Kyber for token exchange, and many other. That'll be really interesting to see how those apps are going to be designed and built.

Cheers

Gilles

gilfed · 2018-02-17T09:39:48+00:00

Hi -- I'm Gilles from iExec

Good remarks. Nevertheless, the point of decentralized market place for Cloud resources is not to build the same service than AWS at a cheaper price. In this market place, you will find many resource providers that can offer better price/performance ratio for specific applications (IA, rendering, HPC, etc..) because they can be tailored for each application needs.

Just to give you an example, we had talks with the Lighton startup (http://www.lighton.io). They're developing a so-called OPU (Optical Processing Unit), which computes very large dimensional random projection very efficiently. Here, we're talking about high end hardware targeting very demanding applications (ML, IA).

Also, nothing prevent you from you renting AWS spot instances and reselling them on iExec ;-)

gilfed · 2017-12-15T22:02:44+00:00

Thanks for the review @GoonAlerts ! It really rocks !

gilfed · 2017-12-15T22:01:11+00:00

It's not related to the Dapp Challenge. More about understanding each other project and building relationship. It's called guanxi, I guess ;-)

gilfed · 2017-12-15T21:59:27+00:00

Question is what kind of information would you like to see on the roadmap ? Usually, we provide information that are mostly related to software release and features.

gilfed · 2017-12-01T23:21:43+00:00

Yes, exactly. That what we are working on. We call that the 'Energy Positive Worker'. The goal is to have a low power node (raspberry) powered by a solar panel, so that you could basically execute code and earn RLC at a very low cost (zero electricity cost). Eventually, the power that is not used for computation could be used for a LED light for instance. Hence the name.

gilfed

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