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With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the global demand for computing power has been steadily increasing. From early deep learning model training to today's large language models and image generation techniques, AI applications are becoming increasingly widespread across various industries. These technologies rely heavily on powerful computing capabilities. However, despite the surging demand for computing power driven by AI, hardware costs have not increased significantly.
Moore's Law once predicted that semiconductor technology would double chip performance every two years while hardware costs continued to decline. This has led to today's smartphones, laptops, and even household appliances having computing power comparable to supercomputers of the past. However, despite the decreasing hardware costs, the rental costs of cloud computing have not shown a similar downward trend. Cloud computing market prices remain high, hindering the development of AI projects and services that require large-scale data processing due to insufficient capital.
This contradiction highlights the cost bottleneck in the cloud computing sector and presents an opportunity for new distributed computing architectures. How to maintain computing power while reducing the operating costs of computing resources has become a major challenge for technological innovation. Therefore, distributed computing platforms like iSunCoin have emerged to address the cost issues of traditional cloud computing. By effectively integrating idle computing resources worldwide, iSunCoin aims to provide efficient and low-cost computing services, thereby promoting the sustainable development of AI and other high-demand applications.
The emergence of iSunCoin can effectively reduce the rental costs of computing resources and enable fairer and more flexible resource allocation. This allows more developers and enterprises to utilize AI and other computing resources at lower costs, accelerating the adoption and sustainable development of artificial intelligence.
In the iSunCoin network, the integration and standardization of computing resources are crucial for achieving efficient and scalable distributed computing. To facilitate unified measurement and utilization across different hardware and network conditions, we introduce SUNS (Scalable Unified Node Strength) as a standardized unit for measuring computing power. SUNS is more than just a simple number; it packages and unifies multi-dimensional resources such as CPU power, GPU power, memory capacity, storage space, and network bandwidth, providing developers and users with a clear and easy-to-operate virtualized resource unit.
Through SUNS, iSunCoin can achieve resource standardization and virtualization, allowing computing resources to be precisely defined and efficiently configured. Within this framework, every participant, whether a provider or user, can measure, exchange, and use different computing services with the same standard, further accelerating the deployment of distributed applications and services. This not only improves resource allocation efficiency but also provides strong support for the system's scalability, flexibility, and cross-platform compatibility.
In the iSunCoin network, UVM (Unified Virtual Machine) technology plays a crucial role in virtualizing and managing idle computing resources distributed globally. The iSunCoin network abstracts a large number of idle machines into SUNS computing units and packages these computing resources into configurable, standardized computing units using a containerization concept. Through UVM virtualization technology, applications can be packaged into specific computing units, which can be flexibly combined into a suitably sized computing container based on demand. This containerized design allows different applications to run on virtual machines with different scale computing power and dynamically adjust resource allocation based on actual needs.
The application of virtualization technology brings significant benefits. First, virtualization enables efficient utilization of resources, allowing idle resources to be fully utilized and avoiding hardware waste. Second, virtualization provides flexibility. Applications are no longer limited by physical hardware configurations and can quickly adjust resources based on current loads or demands, enabling dynamic scaling. Third, virtualization simplifies system management. Through a unified management interface, operation and maintenance personnel can easily monitor and manage a large number of virtual machines, improving system reliability and operational efficiency. Finally, virtualization can also provide higher isolation, ensuring that the mutual influence between different applications is minimized, thereby improving the overall stability and security of the system.
The introduction of this virtualization layer allows the iSunCoin network to operate efficiently on a global scale and dynamically allocate computing resources based on demand, resulting in a highly resilient and scalable distributed computing environment.
UBN (Unified Blockchain Network) is the core technology of iSunCoin, designed to support a massive number of nodes. This blockchain network can accommodate trillions of computing nodes. To handle such a vast number of nodes, UBN employs advanced P2P communication technology, enabling millions of machines distributed globally to efficiently and stably exchange and synchronize data. This innovative technology facilitates smoother and more real-time interactions between large-scale nodes, significantly improving the overall operational efficiency and reliability of the blockchain network, ensuring iSunCoin's high performance, security, and stability under most circumstances.
UBN places a particular emphasis on Sharding technology, a technique that divides the blockchain network into multiple smaller shards, significantly improving the network's scalability and throughput. Each shard can independently process a portion of data, reducing the burden on a single blockchain and enabling the overall system to accommodate more nodes and transactions while maintaining stability. This not only enhances transaction processing speed but also ensures the high scalability of the blockchain network, enabling it to handle future data surges.
In terms of consensus mechanisms, UBN introduces a fast-synchronizing consensus mechanism aimed at improving blockchain efficiency, reducing transaction confirmation time, and ensuring overall network consistency. This mechanism allows nodes to reach consensus more quickly, enabling fast and reliable data synchronization in a distributed environment.
Furthermore, UBN incorporates homomorphic encryption technology to further enhance the system's privacy protection capabilities. This technology allows encrypted computations to be performed without revealing the content of the data, thus protecting user privacy while ensuring data accuracy and validity. The application of this technology enables the iSunCoin network to provide efficient data processing and computing functions while ensuring privacy and security.
As of December 2024, the primary computing architectures can be categorized into the following:
- x86 Architecture (Intel/AMD): The x86 architecture is the most prevalent processor architecture for desktops and servers, widely used in high-performance computing, database processing, and cloud services. Intel and AMD are the primary providers of this architecture, and their processors typically offer excellent single-core performance and efficient multi-core processing capabilities.
- ARM Architecture: The ARM architecture has gained widespread adoption in mobile devices, embedded systems, and data centers due to its high efficiency and low power consumption. ARM processors are not only suitable for handheld devices but also play an increasingly important role in cloud and edge computing.
- GPU Architecture (NVIDIA/AMD): GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) architectures play a crucial role in high-performance parallel computing, particularly in machine learning, big data analytics, and blockchain computing. NVIDIA and AMD offer GPUs with powerful parallel processing capabilities, capable of accelerating a wide range of computationally intensive tasks.
- FPGA Architecture: Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are flexible hardware architectures that can be customized for specific tasks, offering unparalleled advantages in highly specialized computing areas such as data stream processing and cryptographic operations.
- ASIC Architecture: Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) are hardware designed specifically for a particular task, commonly used in high-performance blockchain mining and cryptocurrency computing.
Currently, x86 and GPU architectures are the most mainstream and abundant computing resources. iSunCoin has already completed the integration support for these two architectures and will continue to expand support for other architectures in the future.
The iSunCoin middle Layer platform services form the core of the entire distributed computing network, responsible for integrating and virtualizing distributed computing resources into usable computing units. Once a machine installs and starts the iSunCoin client, it becomes part of the iSunCoin network and contributes its idle computing resources, including CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and network bandwidth, to form a global P2P computing resource pool.
In the iSunCoin network, each node periodically receives maintenance rewards from the blockchain, which are issued in the form of ISC as a reward for the node's contribution of computing resources. These ISC rewards not only serve as an incentive for nodes to participate in operations but also provide economic incentives for the overall stability and security of the network, encouraging more machines to join the network and provide more computing resources.
After idle computing resources are virtualized into computing containers measured in SUNS, these virtualized computing containers can be flexibly resized according to user needs. Users can rent these containers to run various computing tasks by paying ISC on an hourly basis. Most of the paid ISC is distributed to the nodes providing the computing power as a reward for using the resources. A small portion of the ISC is used as auditing rewards and is evenly distributed to all nodes in the iSunCoin network to encourage nodes to actively participate in network monitoring and maintenance and ensure the transparency and reliability of the system.
Through middleware platform services, iSunCoin can support the massive computing power demands of the booming artificial intelligence industry. At the same time, the community can easily join as nodes to contribute computing power and receive economic rewards, ensuring the efficient operation of iSunCoin network resources. Nodes share computing resources by renting SUNS containers, while the transparency and decentralization of the blockchain guarantee the fairness and security of overall operations.
iSunCoin's upper layer application deployment provides a flexible and efficient virtualization platform through the UAI specification, enabling applications to transcend physical server and geographic location limitations, achieving more efficient operation and resource utilization, and significantly reducing the hardware dependency and resource bottlenecks of traditional servers.
UAI (Unified Application Image) is a universal image format designed to standardize the organization of different server architectures, operating systems, and applications. Through the UAI specification, users can convert the running environment of existing servers into an image format that complies with the UVM standard and upload it to the iSunCloud database. These images not only preserve the complete running state of the application but can also be migrated to suitable nodes for operation at any time, ensuring efficient and stable virtualization operation in the iSunCoin network.
After uploading the image, users only need to pay a sufficient amount of ISC as a rental fee to run their virtualized servers in the iSunCoin network. iSunCoin utilizes its advanced virtualization platform to distribute the application's workload to nodes worldwide, enabling flexible deployment and operation across geographic locations and hardware architectures. This not only improves resource utilization but also ensures high availability and low latency of server operation.
Compared to traditional servers, running virtualized servers on iSunCoin makes the application's running environment more flexible, allowing dynamic adjustment of computing resources according to demand, enabling instant scaling up or down and avoiding resource waste or shortages in traditional servers during load fluctuations. At the same time, iSunCoin's distributed architecture enables virtualized servers to run in backup across nodes in multiple physical locations, not only improving service reliability and fault tolerance but also significantly reducing the risk of single points of failure and avoiding regional disasters.
Through globally distributed computing resources, virtualized servers can schedule computing workloads to nodes closer to the user's location, significantly reducing response times for executing applications in different regions and greatly improving data processing speed and user experience. This demand-driven dynamic resource management makes iSunCoin far superior to traditional single-server architectures in terms of operational efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
The following introduces several open-source artificial intelligence application services suitable for iSunCoin:
Llama is an open-source large language model released by Meta, specifically designed for natural language processing tasks, covering a wide range of applications such as text generation, question answering, and translation. As an open-source model, Llama allows developers to customize it and can efficiently process large amounts of language data. In the iSunCoin network, Llama operates as part of an AI application service, requiring 30 SUNS of computing resources and can provide flexible and efficient computing capabilities with the support of globally distributed computing resources.
With the support of smart contracts, Llama deployed on iSunCoin can seamlessly integrate with other application services. Smart contracts provide a self-executing, trustless protocol framework, enabling different application services to interact with the Llama model in real-time and exchange data. For example, enterprises can leverage smart contracts to combine the language understanding capabilities of the Llama model with other business applications to implement automated customer service, language generation applications, or intelligent recommendation systems. These services can be customized and expanded according to business needs.
The introduction of smart contracts makes Llama on iSunCoin highly flexible and scalable, and it can be efficiently integrated with various application services, thereby improving the overall system's operational efficiency and feature richness. Developers can design more innovative and reliable AI solutions without relying on centralized platforms, and deploy them using iSunCoin's distributed computing resources, deeply integrating with various business needs to provide users with more diverse and advanced AI solutions.
CosyVoice is an open-source text-to-speech model developed by Alibaba, aimed at providing developers with high-quality, natural-sounding speech synthesis capabilities. Based on advanced deep learning techniques, this model can generate natural speech suitable for various voice application scenarios, such as intelligent assistants, voice navigation, and audio reading, with a resource requirement of 5 SUNS.
The generated audio files will be stored in iSunCoin's network storage space for subsequent integration and use. Users can download the synthesized speech or seamlessly connect it with other systems through smart contracts, such as embedding it into applications or using it for voice playback services. The introduction of smart contracts can automate the speech generation process and ensure the transparency and security of operations, enabling more innovative and practical voice applications.
FLUX.1 is a text-to-image model developed by Black Forest Labs, designed to generate high-quality images. Based on advanced Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and deep learning techniques, the model can automatically generate high-resolution images that match text descriptions. FLUX.1 supports multiple language descriptions and can be applied in various creative fields such as art creation, design, advertising, and virtual world construction, with a resource requirement of 30 SUNS.
FLUX.1 leverages iSunCoin's distributed computing platform to distribute computations across nodes worldwide, ensuring a fast and efficient image generation process. Whether creating artwork or generating design assets, users can easily transform text descriptions into visual images through FLUX.1. This technology is particularly suitable for industries that require a large amount of creative output, such as advertising design, e-commerce, film production, and game development.
Generated images will be stored in iSunCoin's network storage space and can be further processed, modified, or directly used in applications. Users can connect FLUX.1-generated images with other application services through smart contracts, enabling images to be automatically integrated into business processes, providing scalable and innovative solutions for the creative industry.
Dream Out iSun Smart Community is an innovative social platform operating on the iSunCoin network, deeply integrating AI technology with social interaction, allowing users to express themselves more freely and creatively.
On Dream Out, users can transform text descriptions into images or videos, enabling imagination and creativity to be quickly transformed into visual content. Whether describing a fictional scene, creating personalized artwork, or transforming daily life into visual stories, users can easily transform text descriptions into stunning images or short videos. This process is achieved through the seamless integration of smart contracts and other AI models, which can generate corresponding images or videos based on user text instructions, further enriching users' expression and making social interaction more creative and visually appealing.
In addition, Dream Out provides a more intelligent social interaction mode. The platform utilizes iSunCoin's powerful computing resources to provide users with efficient and personalized content recommendation services, helping users discover interesting communities, topics, and friends, and encouraging users to create content based on their interests and needs. Whether it's sharing personal daily life or exchanging knowledge in professional fields, iSunCoin can provide diverse social scenarios, allowing every user to find their place.
User-generated images and video content will be stored in iSunCoin's distributed storage space and can be managed through intelligent encryption technology to ensure content security and privacy, and also promote interaction and sharing among users. Each user can control their own creations, decide whether to make them public or share them with other users, and commercialize them as needed. iSunCoin provides a new social experience, helping users express themselves more freely and creatively, and strengthening the depth and breadth of community interaction.
Midea iSun Smart Media is a media platform operating on the iSunCoin network, aimed at providing automated news generation and multimedia content creation capabilities. By combining web crawling technology, Midea can collect real-time events happening around the world and automatically generate high-quality news articles. Whether it's global news, local events, or information in specific fields, Midea can quickly analyze and organize it into structured content and generate news articles, broadcasts, and videos in various multimedia formats based on demand.
Midea integrates artificial intelligence technology to summarize the data collected by the crawler. The AI system will reorganize and convert news articles into in-depth reports based on factors such as time, region, and event type. These reports not only present facts but also delve deeper into the background and impact of events, helping readers gain a comprehensive understanding of major global events.
One of the biggest features of Midea is its openness. Anyone can create their own channel on the platform and plan their own programs. Whether it's about current events, technology, finance, or culture, creators can use the resources and tools provided by Midea to quickly generate content and publish it. The platform supports users to customize program structures, set broadcast times, and achieve efficient distribution of programs through Midea's distributed computing and storage system.
Midea iSun Smart Media maximizes iSunCoin's powerful distributed computing capabilities, providing an innovative platform for news generation, report editing, and audiovisual creation. This not only makes reporting on global events more efficient and diverse but also provides creators with flexible content generation and publishing functions, realizing a new model for the media industry.
iSun Smart Accounting is an AI-powered audit platform operating on the iSunCoin network, designed for automated and intelligent accounting processes. With advanced AI technology, this platform can not only provide accurate accounting reports, account reconciliation, and tax calculations but also enable continuous auditing, making enterprise financial processes more transparent, reliable, and compliant with regulations.
iSun Smart Accounting achieves continuous auditing through 24/7 AI technology, allowing enterprises to continuously monitor and verify the accuracy and compliance of financial data throughout the entire financial cycle. Traditional auditing typically involves examining data from a past period, while continuous auditing uses real-time data streams to automatically check and analyze every transaction and financial activity, ensuring the immediate compliance and accuracy of financial data. This allows enterprises to promptly identify and correct errors or non-compliant behaviors, reducing audit risks and ensuring compliance.
In the iSun Smart Accounting platform, from bookkeeping and auditing to issuing auditor's opinions, all processes can be automated through AI technology and compared with external regulatory data, as well as historical economic data and public financial reports, enabling the most comprehensive multi-dimensional observation and rationality analysis of the entire financial situation. The system automatically identifies potential issues based on preset audit rules and generates corresponding alerts or reports to remind enterprise management of matters that need attention. These audit reports can be generated at any time and are always up-to-date.
iSunCoin provides homomorphic encryption technology, and all financial data and audit records are encrypted and stored online, ensuring data integrity and making the audit process more transparent and traceable. Every transaction and every report can be tracked, and historical records can be checked on the blockchain, thereby increasing the trust and transparency of both internal and external enterprises.
Enterprises can pay ISC to use the iSun Smart Accounting service to automate bookkeeping and generate accounting reports, match auditor signatures, and generate audit reports and financial statements. The platform's smart contract function allows enterprises to easily share data and collaborate with external accounting firms, auditing firms, and audit institutions, with maximum privacy protection, eliminating the need for cumbersome manual intervention.
With the rapid development of technology, iSunCoin envisions a smarter and more efficient future. In this future, distributed computing, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and smart contracts will profoundly impact various industries and reshape global economic activities. As an advanced distributed computing platform, iSunCoin will continue to promote the integration and innovation of these technologies, enabling more efficient resource sharing and data processing, and providing users with more comprehensive services.
In the future, iSunCoin will further optimize its distributed architecture, supporting more hardware platforms and computing resources to achieve more seamless global resource integration. This will enable iSunCoin to support more efficient large-scale application scenarios and meet the needs of global users for high-performance computing and data storage.
In the field of artificial intelligence, iSunCoin will continue to strengthen its integration with open-source AI technologies, promoting the development and deployment of more innovative AI applications. With the continuous breakthroughs in speech recognition, image generation, machine learning, and other technologies, iSunCoin will provide developers with a smarter and more flexible development platform, helping them create more innovative AI services and achieve cross-industry and cross-domain applications.
In terms of blockchain technology, iSunCoin will enhance the stability and scalability of its blockchain network to achieve more efficient data processing and cross-blockchain collaboration. With the maturity of blockchain technology, iSunCoin will become the infrastructure for more business scenarios, from finance to logistics, from healthcare to public services, where blockchain technology applications will be ubiquitous and change the way we manage and use data.
In addition, iSunCoin plans to carry out more collaborations with global enterprises and developers in the future to promote cross-border data sharing and collaboration. iSunCoin will become the best partner for enterprises' digital transformation and intelligent upgrading, helping enterprises stand out in global competition through efficient resource management and advanced technology support.