Firm building decentralized supercomputer attracts 1.5M nodes during testnet
Computation firm Nexus’ in-development decentralized supercomputer attracted more than 1.5 million nodes from 187 countries during a recent five-day testnet period.
Nexus has been working on building a supercomputer designed to aggregate computing power from computers and mobile devices globally to achieve a “Verifiable Internet,” raising $25 million in Series A funding in June.
It’s among a growing group of protocols and companies looking to tap into distributed computing power worldwide to achieve a common goal.
The testnet saw about 800,000 web nodes and 700,000 command-line interface nodes come online, with more than 100,000 concurrent nodes at full capacity. Nexus said the testnet results show “early excitement” for a shared supercomputer.
The Nexus zkVM testnet, which ran from Dec. 9 to 13, “validates the global demand for trust-driven innovations in blockchain and AI,” the firm’s CEO Daniel Marin told Cointelegraph, adding that there’s still more work to do to scale the network globally.
The testnet showed that about 37% of the network traffic in the testnet came from mobile devices.
On Monday, December 9, at 9:00 am Pacific, we’ll be launching a new Nexus network testnet.
— Nexus (@NexusLabs) December 6, 2024
The goal is to enable the Verifiable Internet.
Watch our latest video to learn more about what we are building. pic.twitter.com/gkTCWMjTbj
Interaction from mobile devices outpaced desktops in some countries, including Ethiopia and Poland.
“We knew we had to lower the barrier of entry to scale this global distributed prover network, so we made it easy for anyone to connect to the network with any device.”
Despite the nodes being decentralized, Nexus keeps tight control over the supercomputer’s processes. Marin said Nexus selects the programs to be provided with the network, though it will accept submissions for programs to be proven after a review process.
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Marin acknowledged that his company isn’t the first to harness distributed computing power. SETI@home was a scientific experiment at UC Berkeley that used Internet-connected computers to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, which ended in 2020.
Internet Computer has been developing a similar infrastructure in the decentralized computation space, as is the Golem Network and the Zennet.
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