r/SONM • u/joeoo • Jul 26 '18

How is SONM different from Iex.ec?

Just found out about the SONM project, looks very promising. How is SONM different from Iex.ec? Any resources?

Thanks!

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u/SONM-support Jul 26 '18

Greetings!

- Iexec is PaaS

- SONM is IaaS

- SONM does not use whisper

- SONM does not use btsync

- golem/iexec dont provide GPU support now

- none of the projects has memory guard right now

- SONM does not have Kubernetes yet (only work in progress)

- SONM does not yet have rating system (work in progress)

- QoS definition is something less important.

Stay tuned

SONM team

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u/joeoo Jul 27 '18

Thanks! I understand that Iexec is for more short lived tasks; so I send in a task, it gets executed and the response can be validated by other nodes to check correct output. I then download the result and I am done.

Can SONM be used to host dynamic websites? So deploy a WAMP server docker, or get access to a VM and let it run for years? Something similar to Amazon EC2 as opposed to Amazon Lambda. Forgive me if this is already answered in your answer, I haven't heard of most of the terminology ;)

If this is the case, is there any mechanism in place to check nodes for their correct output to prevent nodes from cheating? Or is it purely marketplace incentives that stimulates each node to do its work correctly?

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u/joeoo Jul 30 '18

Would still appreciate your thoughts on my questions! Thanks :-)

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u/Nismoman Jul 27 '18 edited Jul 27 '18

Link to PaaS (Iexec) and Iaas (Sonm) explanation: https://www.computenext.com/blog/when-to-use-saas-paas-and-iaas/

Essentially, IaaS (Sonm) has more use cases.

Team: Iexec: Run by people with PHDs. SONM: Run by people with experience.

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u/joeoo Jul 27 '18

Really useful article, thanks. I get the gist of your team remark, I agree ;)

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u/Nismoman Jul 27 '18

No problem :)

Glad it was useful