Day 1: Overview of CoD Summit²
Day 1: Overview of CoD Summit²
All presentations from CoD Summit² Day 1
Compute over Data (COD) Summit is a two-day conference that took center stage during the LabWeek’22 in November in Lisbon. Engineers and scientists convened to help bring together the next generation of platforms that make data and compute (or Compute over Data) more accessible and efficient. The future of data and computation was discussed through various areas: distributed datasets, both edge and data centers, reproducible builds, consensus, and technologies such as WASM and DAG computations.
The COD working group was the force behind the summit — the group aims to create opportunities for collaboration for the members who are building decentralized compute over data.
The Bacalhau project took center stage with six presentations across the summit. Bacalhau is a decentralized public computation network that takes a job and moves it near where the data is stored, including across a decentralized server network that stores data and runs jobs inside it. Bacalhau runs the job near where data lives and eliminates data management for the user.
Let’s take a look at the presentations from day 1
David Aronchick, Head of Compute over Data at Protocol Labs, opened the summit with the talk titled “Revolutionizing the Big Data Age With Compute over Data.” He talked about how fast humanity produces a substantial amount of data today, and as it stands, it will reach 175 ZB by 2025!! (1 ZB=¹⁰⁹ TB, that’s A LOT OF data). Then David demonstrated how easy it is to produce 100TB of data in 100 days! Just look at these numbers.
Another astonishing fact is that it takes one day to move 100TB of data using 10Gbps connection! Next, David shared his list of companies that specialize in compute over data. Still, they target a different situation where a user has a centralized, very efficient processing cluster. Users continuously move their data into this processing cluster for computation, with very high costs and high latency. But decentralized data requires different solutions that are central to this summit’s discussions.
The YouTube link to David’s talk is here.
Brooklyn Zelenka, co-founder & CTO of Fission, gave a second talk on “Decentralized Authentication” — her work on UCAN, a User-Controlled Authorisation Network. Brooklyn and her team came up with solutions with only two handshakes (WoW!) compared with web2 OAuth, which has 12 handshakes! She talked about the specifics of her protocol and its capabilities in the browser, which, thanks to WASM and offline compute, is permissionless. Highly recommend watching Brooklyn talk on YouTube!
The third presenter was Dmitry Kurinskiy from Fluence Labs with his talk on “CoD Networks Discovery and Composability.”
Dmitry’s presentation lives here.
An overview of the new Protocol Labs project, “EVM-Compatible Filecoin Virtual Machine” (FVM), was given by Zak Ayesh from the FVM project.
Watch Zak’s presentation here.
David Aronchick announced the Bacalhau Beta release while presenting “Bacalhau — A Platform to Bring Compute to Data”. Bacalhau is a Distributed Computation system for decentralized compute workloads. The Bacalhau team made terrific progress and delivered the beta project in less than nine months! At the end of his presentation, David ran five live demos, with a cherry on top being a live demo on stable diffusion!
The video link is here.
Juan Benet, founder, and CEO of Protocol Labs gave a talk on “Impact of Compute over Data,” where he revealed the Filecoin Master plan. Firstly, to build the world’s largest decentralized storage network, and second, to onboard Humanity’s data. The last point is to bring compute to the data, datasets stored on Filecoin need computation.
Watch Juan’s talk here:)
Presentation on “Structured Data in Web3 — Rethinking Databases” by Sergii Mikhtoniuk, co-founder of Kamu.
The YouTube link is here!
Moving along, Lessons Learned from Incentive Models — Jon Starr, Levi Rybalov from Gridcoin.
The Youtube link is here for you!
“Computing in Large Data Spaces “by Matt Blumberg from Charity Engine is about the Crowdsourced cloud service where a percentage of their profit goes to charities. On top of that, they donate some of the computation resources to academic and medical research.
Here is a video link for this very impressive work.
“Building on Bacalhau for better Web3 data” by — Phillip LeBlanc, Co-founder and CTO of SpiceAI.
Watch his YouTube video.
“WeatherXM: Computing on Weather Data” — Stratos Theodorou, co-founder of WeatherXM.
Watch his presentation here.
“WASM: Our Portal to Portable Computing” — Peter Wang, CEO, and co-founder of Anaconda — highly recommend watching it here!
I hope you enjoyed many great talks on the CoD Summit day 1!
Stay tuned for more content from CoD Summit and CoD Working Group!