golemfactory/base repository overview

⁠Golem

The aim of the Golem project is to create a global prosumer market for computing power, in which producers may sell spare CPU time of their personal computers and consumers may acquire resources for computation-intensive tasks. In technical terms, Golem is designed as a decentralised peer-to-peer network established by nodes running the Golem client software. For the purpose of this paper we assume that there are two types of nodes in the Golem network: requestor nodes that announce computing tasks and compute nodes that perform computations (in the actual implementation nodes may switch between both roles).

⁠Installing and testing

Follow the installation instruction from here⁠.

Golem windows package⁠

Golem Linux package⁠

⁠Warning

Golem Project is a work in progress. Current version is an alpha stage of Brass Golem and it's not fully secured. Check this list of issues⁠ for more details. Please be sure that you understand the risk before installing the software.

⁠License

Golem is open source and distributed under GPLv3 license⁠.

⁠Acknowledgements

Golem communicates with external technologies some of them may be downloaded and install with Golem package:

• Docker⁠
• FreeImage⁠
• Geth⁠
• IPFS⁠
• OpenExr⁠
• OpenSSL⁠
• Python2.7⁠
• PyQt4⁠
• Qt4⁠
• SQLite3⁠

Benchmarks:

• General: [Minilight] (http://www.hxa.name/minilight⁠) by Harrison Ainsworth / HXA7241 and Juraj Sukop
• Blender: [scene-Helicopter] (https://www.blender.org/download/demo-files/⁠)
• LuxRender: SchoolCorridor⁠ by Simon Wendsche

Icons:

• Freeline⁠ by Enes Dal.

⁠Contact

Help us develop the application by submitting issues and bugs. See instruction here⁠.

You can also send us an email to [email protected] or talk to us on slack golemproject.slack.com. Get an invitation here⁠.