Topic: [ANN][PoW][MN] Octa.Space - distributed computing and VPN - page 5. (Read 3970 times)

Good news, we reach the agreement with cool and good known mining pool to support Octa.Space when mainnet launch.
More details will be provided with news about mainnet start.

Hello everyone,

We added the new section 'Blog' on our website where we will publish real usage examples and other articles related to the Octa.Space
The first article is Neural Style Transfer: how to create artwork using "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" and project's GPU rental service

https://octa.space/blog/nst/

Enjoy reading

Hello there,

Development updates:

 * Added support of Ubuntu 18.04
 * Added support of HiveOS, now your rig can be VPN access point and earn not only by mining
 * Added bot to discord server which provide useful information about network and track changes on it

just a reminder - new accounts will be funded by Ø 5 for testing project's services, welcome: https://cube.octa.space

Development updates:

 * Decreased system requirements for node installation:

    No need to have dedicated volume for docker data, but in this case your node may acts only as VPN gateway

 * Starting from current version of node software it will be updating automatically without user interaction

Please update node software to current version:

Development updates (testnet):

 * Switched to native Octa.Space network and coin
 * UI improvements
 * Improved deposits functionality

Development updates:

 * Added shadowsocks + v2ray VPN, now it's possible to choose the vpn type between wireguard and shadowsocks
 * Added tensorflow 2.9.0 to the list of available images

Development updates (testnet):

 * block explorer was deployed: https://explorer.octa.space
 * RPC & WS interfaces: https://rpc.octa.space & wss://rpc.octa.space/ws

testnet is up and running, now we build infra software around it, block explorer is first one tool to be implemented
more info in our tg channel or discord

Welcome to our discord server: https://discord.gg/24W42beE3Q

Development updates:

 * implementing own L1 PoW (ethash) network to issue OCTA coins for in project payments
 * developing bridge to swap native OCTA to wrapped OCTA (wOCTA) on BSC network and vise versa

How to get OCTA:

    mining
    swap wOCTA -> OCTA
    rent out your hardware and get be paid for it

How to get wOCTA:

    buy wOCTA
    swap OCTA -> wOCTA

What you can do with OCTA:

    rent hardware and use it for computation, VPN or other services implemented in future
    swap to wOCTA and sell it

Development updates:

 * Added 'Payments' tab to show payments for specific node
 * Added new charts to dashboard: nodes and daily income
 * Added 'AI score' metric for nodes with GPU to evaluate AI performance operations
 * Every new registered account will be funded by $5 to have possibility to test platform

Feel free to join our telegram channel: https://t.me/octaspace

Development updates:

 * Added rent schedule feature, now it's possible to specify the days and hours when you want to have your node rent out
 * Implemented the HTTP REST API to interact with platform
 * Updated documentation with information about API - https://octa.space/docs/development/http_rest_api

More information in our telegram channel: https://t.me/octaspace

Development updates:

 * Add AMD GPUs support
 * Improve "idle jobs" UI
 * Add support of tensorflow, pytorch, blender and hashcat

Hello again,

After a long time during project was postponed we are happy to announce the new phase of development.
A lot of things were changed, a lot of they is reimplemented and now we have working system which able to solve real tasks and needs.

What is Octa.Space now? It's a platform to build a cloud based services like computing, data storages, VPN access points and so on.
Anyone is able to become a host by renting out their hardware: home PC, mining farm, VDS or VPS.
Users has possibility to use this resources according to their requirements (computations, vpn, ...) and pay for the usage.

At the moment we have two services implemented:

 * CPU/GPU rental service which may be used for the following tasks:

    * Maching learing using TensorFlow or PyTorch
    * 3D Rendering using Blender
    * Any other tasks which needs massive computation power

 * VPN service which provides access points around the world

For billing operations project uses Ethereum network and accept USDT for payments.
To reduce the operational costs dedicated PoA network is used.

Current roadmap:

 * Make system more stable, improve UI and API to be ready go to production
 * Implement distributed storage with S3 interface as a new service
 * Develop project's specific internal/public software to make ecosystem more usable
 * Release own crypto-currency to use it as alternative to USDT and which will be backed by Octa.Space

Now project is operate in beta mode and configured to use Ethereum testnet.
Anyone can setup own node to provide project more power or use existing one to test.

We appriaciate any feedback about our project, hope the project will be useful.

Welcome to our new website https://octa.space and our telegram channel.

Hello!
We published a new article in the blog section with an example of how the platform can "collaborate" with blender and presented a complete cycle with an example of rendering.
English translation will be added soon.
https://octa.space/ru/blog/render_blender/

We are pleased to publish 2 articles (in russian) in the "blog" section with detailed examples of how the platform works with various tasks.
English translation will be added soon.
https://octa.space/ru/blog/

Now, octa.space is supported on the operating system Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa

Detailed installation instructions:
https://octa.space/en/docs/nodes-install/

New version of Octa node middleware 1.0.5 released.
An automatic update has been sent to all nodes on the network.

The roadmap of the project has been published: https://octa.space/en/docs/roadmap/