White Paper v2 Release
Today, ByteNite is excited to announce the release of version 2.0 of its White Paper, which details the company’s innovative model for commercial grid computing.
For those unfamiliar with grid computing, it is a distributed computing model in which resources from multiple computers and devices are used to perform a single task. This allows for greater efficiency and faster processing times, as multiple computers can work on the same task simultaneously.
In the updated White Paper, I give an overview of the current state of the art in both grid computing and cloud computing. I show the commonalities of these two technologies and go over their history, underlining how they are topical in today’s world.
I highlight the vast availability of unused computing resources around the world, as well as the ever-increasing global connectivity that allows for more efficient resource sharing. I give an overview of the underlying business concepts and the innovative value proposition that sets ByteNite’s model apart from others in the industry.
But perhaps most importantly, the White Paper delves into ByteNite’s unique model for commercial grid computing. I detail the overall structure and workflow design of the system, as well as its key features and the chronological phases of its activity. At the heart of the system is an algorithm that is responsible for managing and scheduling the workload in a fast and fault-tolerant manner.
Overall, the release of version 2.0 of ByteNite’s White Paper is an exciting development for those interested in commercial grid computing. The company’s innovative model has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses and organizations approach distributed computing, and we can’t wait to see the impact it has on the industry.
If you’re interested in learning more about ByteNite’s commercial grid computing model, be sure to check out the full White Paper at the link above. We’re confident it will provide you with a thorough understanding of the technology and how it can be applied to our first computing applications, Video Encoding, 3D Rendering and Computer Vision.
Here follows an excerpt of the White Paper explaining what ByteNite is, who it can benefit, and which industries and use cases it is built for:
ByteNite is a commercial, centralized, service-oriented grid computing system based on subscriber devices’ processing capacity, realizing a high-throughput computing environment for utility computing purposes. Rather than an online marketplace, where buyers and sellers are directly put into contact, ByteNite creates two different and separate hubs that are accessible by the purchasers of computing services (“users” or “customers”) and by the suppliers of computing power (“workers” or “suppliers”), respectively, brokering the management of computational resources to keep the two segments well coordinated and functioning.
The three components that build up ByteNite’s grid computing system are the following:
• Core System: the core middleware, or backend layer, responsible for managing, scheduling, retrieving, transforming, transitioning, sending, organizing, and validating the users’ computational jobs. It stores and makes accessible at any moment all the users’ and workers’ data, including job history, activity, wallet balances, and device info. It also generates quotes, collects users’ payments, and distributes rewards to workers.
• ByteNite Computing Platform: a user-level middleware available as a software-as-a-service platform, accessible through a web UI or an API, exposing both ready-made and custom-made computing services (“applications”) to customers. On the platform, users can configure, submit, and pay for computing jobs, as well as upload and download their data (inputs and outputs), and watch their job history, jobs states, and summary usage. They can automate the execution of their jobs via recurring tasks and automation pipelines.
• ByteNite Worker App: a piece of software that runs on workers’ devices and enables them to receive, queue up, process, send back, and clear up computing tasks, according to programs shipped with each task and run inside the App. The Worker App also makes available and visible the summary of completed tasks and their credits; hence, it allows workers to redeem their credits by converting them into several forms of reward, including cash.
In other words, ByteNite provides software to connect the users to the system, schedule the workload, and connect the computational grid to the system. The workers supply the fabric layer consisting of distributed computing resources, and the users provide all the inputs that feed the applications, including data.
ByteNite stands in the market as a provider of high-throughput computing services. It targets small- and medium-sized companies seeking faster performance at more affordable prices than the cloud, and enterprises that operate daily with big volumes of data and need to speed up their workflows. In both cases, ByteNite helps fulfilling performance goals for specific applications that generate loosely coupled or independent tasks.
ByteNite will develop three target applications that represent its core mission and an extraordinary market opportunity: Video Encoding (market size: $1.07B, 4.26% CAGR), Graphics Rendering ($2.59B, 20.9% CAGR), and Computer Vision ($12.72B, 16% CAGR). In addition to being three of the most intensive commercial computing activities, these applications are well-suited for distributed computing as each of them generates workloads that can be divided into multiple, independent smaller tasks.
ByteNite’s customers will be also provided with the tools to develop their own distributed applications to run on the grid resources using ByteNite Computing Platform. We can find a variety of use cases for such tailor-made solutions in the media & entertainment industry, as well as in the financial and healthcare sectors.
On the other side, ByteNite offers a solution to make passive income out of ordinary devices, like personal and office computers, smartphones, tablets, small servers, and eventually even a wider range of IoT devices like video game consoles, TVs, home appliances, and industrial electrical machinery. Whilst in 2022 we have online marketplaces to effortlessly sell or rent out almost everything, from material belongings to volatile goods like electricity, it is not yet possible to rent out our devices’ exceeding computing capacity in the matter of a few minutes. ByteNite brings together the technology to enable such a monetization possibility with a smooth onboarding of the workers, by streamlining the workflow and condensing all the interactions into a single piece of software, ByteNite Worker App.
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