Topic: [ANN][XEL] Elastic Project - The Decentralized Supercomputer - page 83. (Read 450524 times)

Done.

If you want to mention website, you can use elastic.pw

Hi guys. I am working on a new OP for the project and appreciate some feedback. After we have enough feedback and revise the post, I offer to create a new bitcointalk OP for elastic and maintain it up to date with all the information we need. As soon as we have it revised and created, I propose moving the bitcointalk discussion there, so we can have control over the OP.

Let me know what important information needs to be added to the post.

P.S. Picked one of the proposed logos for demonstration.

Nice, but the tokens are called XEL now, not ELC.

xel is almost ready

and all other 2 project are in prototype or in paper.

In what way is it better?

Thanks

xel is better than IEX and Golem

We haven't even gone live and the so called competition is already badmouthing us. This is a great news folks. Hold on to your seats tight ! 

It's hard to describe.
Technically, other Supercomputers such as Golem have great use cases (or one use case should I say?) that we currently cannot cover at all ... Blender Rendering for example. If they manage to get their infrastructure stable and safe, they will be able to offer at least one use case that we can't - not now at least.

Elastic works different: We do not have one specific use case, instead the use case has to be coded by the users in Elastic's own programming language - Elastic PL. It is similar to C but with limited functionality so it can be guaranteed that Elastic code can be executed on other machines without causing any harm. Ther language has been discussed about for a very long time and many brilliant heads have helped designing it. You can write a program in Elastic PL and others can be sure that if executed, no exploits, no endless loops, no data leakage or anything else may happen.

So while our Elastic Baby is more flexible in designing tasks, is does not perform that good for one partucular use case that other systems are tailored for. It's sort of a trade off between flexibility and performance / doability. But: If you want to do 6 different tasks you need 6 different "Coins" if you pursue the other coin's approaches. Elastic can do them all ;-) Please keep in mind, that due to the nature "mining" work, some use cases are not yet possible - only tasks which explore a search space can be done now, and not "stupid" tasks which are divided into multiple packages (like rendering divides a large image into many smaller tiles).

But I am sure that Elastic PL will get better over time: Since we have a "flexible" system built and designed this way from ground up to allow "user configurable tasks" - we are as far as I now the only ones that offer this - we are basically limitless concerning our imagination.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Please ask if something is unclear. And please write that more beautifully - I suck at writing.

i hope they can get billions of dollars. i don't care ppl get screwed....lol

money burnt and ppl will finally find gold here.

who cares.


let's get XEL rock.

I guess we / the communiy should plan something like this for the second step. Luckily, with the "exchangeable Languages" and the new soft fork feature we / the community is free to add any features it likes afterwards.

However, all these new super computers (if I understand correctly) are just offering virtual machines for rent .. this is nothing special. So if we add new features, we have to think carefully about it ... we don't want to just "rent VMs"  

Logo submission and discussion here, though it's kind of dead right now:
https://talk.elasticexplorer.org/t/logos-for-elastic/54/4