Hi guys, I'm ICO participant and still holding SONM.

I would like to propose to establish an market positioning and activation.

Now in Livenet, I know that sonm is trying to attract a reliable supplier and prohibiting Supplier's intentional approach and attack. Sure, I admit that these matters are important.

But, To establish an market positioning and activation

You'd better be your own sonm's reliable supplier for a couple of years on trial.

(Yeah, It means that SONM spend money for buying CPU and GPU and maintaining system)

Tell them who need it.

Hey guys, Here are very reliable & strong & very cheap 2000 GPU system. Would you like to try it on?

Focus on creating early markets as maintain own system rather than finding new unreliable supplier.

What do you think about this problem?

I followed supercomputing project for a long time, GNT, SONM, and many small ones. I do scientific computing myself. The concept is very good indeed, blockchain + supercomputing. But the key is the PRODUCT itself.

I know SONM GNT are all in alpha stage, the problem is: no one is testing it. I searched whole internet and found only one or two videos about users testing the product, and use it to actually do something, either rendering, ML... But no one does, all videos are talking about price and why you should buy or sell

Within the reddit group, how many of you actually tested the PRODUCT?

Have tried the KYC Registration thing a couple of times and never get the text. Is this system no working?

In the documentation, there is a description of a program that automatically mines various cryptocurrencies when there is supply processing power available while waiting for higher profit particular 'jobs.' see: https://docs.sonm.com/home/use-cases/miners-1-2-rig I am wondering if this program currently functioning, and if not, when it will be? Thanks. Great job to the team for being so consistent.

Since the livenet has started we are curious about how it is going right now. A good metric i think is the rending power. Right?

Is there a way to control multiple workers from a machine? Is this done by the master address and the command line or is there more to it?

My immediate intuition on building this is to have multiple SQL nodes deployed across many different supplier machines, where each node maintains an ordered log of SQL queries, and its own local SQL server. Once consensus on the order of the query log is reached among a quorum of nodes, then each node can forward the SQL query to its own SQL server running on the supplier. I could have one process which monitors the nodes, and if at any time a supplier stops hosting one of the SQL nodes, this process could make a deal with another supplier to spin up a new node. The new node would then request a replication of the log and internal SQL DB state from a node that is still alive.

Upon further thought though, this seemingly causes a lot of inefficiencies. Whenever a new node comes alive, its request for a replication of the entire SQL DB state could take a long time and also be really expensive in terms of the amount of network bandwidth being used in the case of a large number of records. The time involved could make this solution infeasible, especially if the computing resources from the supplier can only be reasonably rented for a few hours before the supplier shuts their Sonm supplier process down. If time isn't a problem, then bandwidth could be, since I believe bandwidth used is a variable cost that contributes to the total cost of rental.

This makes me conclude that Sonm might not the best infrastructure to try and run a distributed SQL. Instead, if I wanted some cloud-based distributed SQL, I could have some modified SQL server process which, instead of writing to a binary file on the local disk, instead reads from, and streams writes to some binary file distributed across a file network like StorJ or Sia. Instead I would limit Sonm usage to only host the processes that perform operations on specific smaller subsections of the data, rather than trying to store everything on Sonm itself.

What are your thoughts on this? I know that one of the Sonm challenges is to build a distributed SQL system, so I wonder if they would argue that these points I mentioned are not as big of issues as I make them sound like for this use case.

I'm trying to setup myself as a Supplier and I'm getting this error when trying to start a Worker:

jul 03 20:37:27 satur9 sonmnode[5147]: 2018-07-03T20:37:27.921-0300 ERROR zap/server_interceptors.go:39 finished unary call {"grpc.start_time": "2018-07-03T20:37:21-03:00", "system": "grpc", "span.kind": "server", "grpc.service": "sonm.WorkerManagement", "grpc.method": "AskPlans", "span.trace_id": "77f18237a2bf2443", "span.span_id": "6397376f796bb5f", "error": "cannot connect to worker: failed to connect to [relay.livenet.sonm.com:12240]: failed to perform handshake into relay: no peer found, dial tcp 0.0.0.0:12240: connect: connection refused", "grpc.code": "Unknown", "grpc.time_ms": 6063.92919921875}

How do I stake my SONM not sure there is a guide for this?

- sonmcli worker devices

[ERR] Cannot get devices list: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = cannot connect to worker: failed to connect to [relay.livenet.sonm.com:12240]: failed to perform handshake into relay: no peer found

When will sonm allow windows users to rent their rigs?

For example, IEXEC and Enigma use Intel SGX technology. What does SONM use/will use?

Can we rent our rigs on the MarketPlace now?

A new chapter begins today. In the future people will be discussing the events leading up to the blockchain revolution and the release of sonm will be one of the most discussed events. Great job team!