EOSrock - EOS Block Producer Candidate

eosrock (25)in #eos • 6 years ago (edited)

EOSrock is founded by a stellar team of ex-Google, Apple and Cisco engineers, that have built and deployed large-scale cloud infrastructures, distributed-systems, and cryptomining and blockchain development projects.

With our geographically distributed teams in blockchain hotbeds Slovenia and Serbia, we believe we are uniquely positioned to run decentralized block producer nodes with top-notch reliability and scalability.

In addition to hosting and managing the EOS block producers, we aim to accelerate the growth of the EOS platform by developing software tools and keeping our innovations open-source. We promise to conduct ourselves with honesty and integrity in all actions representing EOS project and EOS community.

We believe that the EOS ecosystem will solve blockchain performance problems, and accelerate widespread adoption of the cutting-edge blockchain technology.

Team

Vlada Marjanovic,, Founder and CEO

Entrepreneur, founder of renewable-power crypto mining company CryptoRock, ex-Cisco VP of technology and business development

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Milos Brajovic, CTO

Accomplished blockchain development and operations professional involved in the blockchain technology since 2011, IT and data center subject matter expert

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Sinisa Drpa, COO

Senior full-stack software engineer, blockchain expert with extensive experience with Lisk block producer node development and management, smart contracts developer

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Zoran Dimitrijevic, Advisor, Large Scale Systems

Senior software engineer with experience in large-scale distributed and parallel systems (open-source Hadoop, Hive, Spark, GFS, Borg) and search Infrastructure at Google. He received his PhD in CS from UCSB

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Nena Vuckovic

Focused on blockchain strategy and dApps development, with extensive experience in New Product Introductions at Apple and Cisco

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Dan N.

Expert in a broad suite of information security environments with over 15 years of experience in insuring availability, integrity and monitoring compliance at Apple and Netflix

Company and Infrastructure Details

Company Locations

Belgrade, Serbia
Reno, NV USA

Expected location of servers

We are running a BP node on the EOS Junglenet, hosted on the Google Cloud Platform in Germany – May 2018
Bare metal servers in Tier 3 data centers in Slovenia and Serbia – June 2018
Additional bare metal servers in Tier 3 data centers in France and Reno, Nevada – Q3 2018
Additional bare metal servers in Tier 3 data centers in Singapore - Q3/Q4 2018

Type of servers

Cloud based infrastructure before the EOS.IO launch, bare metal servers following the launch

Technical Specifications - Pre-launch

The preliminary configuration prior to EOS.IO launch is hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud provides high availability, geographic distribution, and almost immediate on-demand scaling. We have launched primary and backup BP nodes on EOS testnet, with the following server configuration:

CPU: 64-core
RAM: 256 GB
Storage: 1 TB
Network: 2x 1Gbps
Operating System: Ubuntu 16.10
Geographical region servers: Germany

EOSrock Junglenet BP node is up and running!

Scaling plan – post launch

With our EOSrock team members in Serbia, Slovenia and US, we plan to deploy stackable infrastructure in Tier 3 data center environments with highest levels of redundancy and security. Our selected hardware surpasses requirements by designing a base configuration and scaling it up and out to match the anticipated number of users and transaction levels.

High availability distributed build-outs insure that in case of a primary BP failure, a failover process to the backup BP node will be initiated with no service impact and downtime.

With one of our team members from the original Google Cloud Platform architecture team, and SW engineer in Lisk producer node role, we are capable of scaling the largest blockchain networks efficiently and fast. We will continue to improve performance and redundancy of our infrastructure based on constant benchmarking.

We will be closely monitoring the processes and hardware across the distributed environments, by using in house built automation tools.

EOS BP Node

Hardware configuration

HPE ProLiant DL380 G9 2U Rack Server - 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 Tetradeca-core (14 Core) 2.60 GHz - 64 GB Installed DDR4 SD; 512GB DDR4, 5 TB, multiple 500GB SSD (main and backup Block Producer, full node)
Cisco Nexus 56128P switch
Cisco ASA 5506-X firewall with routing function
F5 LTM-2000S load balancer with support for private cloud tunneling, and DoS protection

Timeline

Community benefit projects

We are eager to contribute our expertise and resources to promote the increasing adoption of blockchain technologies and EOS ecosystem.

Q2 2018

Setup EOS server environment on Google Cloud Platform, and run EOS testnet
Secure power, space and HW in multiple colocations in anticipation of the mainnet launch
Share findings with EOS BP community

Our EOS testnet node

Organization: EOSrock

Node domain (IP): 165.227.139.61

Port (http): 8888

Port (p2p): 9876

Producer name: eosrock

Public Key: EOS6VMejCdMRmG13SGzXaToc9dMoHo2fhbmbMS7xkUFqdWvxEajp8

Our values

We have 100% self-funded EOSrock project. We aim to invest 3% of the revenue in the community education, open-source SW tools development and EOS awareness projects.

We promise to conduct ourselves with honesty and integrity in all actions representing EOS project and EOS community.

Community projects timeline

Q3 2018

Participate in the EOS workshops and publish presentations, lectures, and videos
Organize a series of hackathons and meetups in Serbia and Slovenia
Develop dashboards and tools/scripts for task automation and share it with EOS community

Q4 2018