| The point here is not speed (that will come), the hope is it will bring privacy to your computational needs along with cost reduction and a little reverse crowdfunding ... perlin is a new distributed computation platform to spread execution of your code across disparate VM running on non-traditional machines. Goal here is to compete with big boys who run cloud VPS hosting services such that folks with spare cycles rent their hardware so other folks can execute their code ... to quote : "Researchers, developers, startups and enterprises incur excessive costs to power up the cloud machines/instances they rent from centralized cloud computing providers. Perlin is creating a decentralized, trustless cloud computing marketplace which delivers massive computational throughput and power with the ability to attain high transaction volume and market activity, effectively reducing the cost of computing power." https://www.perlin.net/ More to the point and I quote : "Decentralized cloud computing. Perlin’s compute layer is bootstrapped on top of it’s DAG-based ledger unlocking a plethora of underutilized compute resources from everyday devices, to form a decentralized cloud computing marketplace that combats the inflated pricing models set by the oligopolistic cloud computing market." "Perlin is the first practical, trustless and decentralized cloud computing marketplace that leverages underutilized compute power in everyday smart-devices to make supercomputing economically viable and accessible globally. This is achieved via a DAG-based distributed ledger using Avalanche consensus." https://www.reddit.com/r/perlin/comments/8vq0c1/the_perlin_n... |