Nigel
July 17, 2017, 5:31pm
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Compute is far down in the roadmap for maidsafe but @dirvine has talked about it before if you search the forum. I’m not sure that it shows up on the most recent simplified roadmap but it has been mentioned many a time to be a feature. Ill start looking for some links to add to this post
One big problem I personally – but also many other ppl in general – have with blockchains is their all-is-public-approach. This makes such concepts (including Ethereum) a tough case for any sensitive data. But in a server-free (rather than the new buzz-word “serverless” – yak) SAFENet we need to think about concepts like distributed computing eventually – because otherwise our functionality would depend on specific devices/servers again to do certain job. So, I’ve been pondering about that a lot…
Just doing a little brainstorm here. Feel free to change, add, remove to the ideas purposed below.
That most computers don’t use their CPU that much isn’t new. That we, as people at home have a lot of computation to offer isn’t new as well. Folding@home is a network of 167000 computers outputting 36000 teraflops of computing for studying Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and many cancers. Could we do decentralized computing on SAFE? Yes, we actually do a little of that while running the V…
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