Homework, shared out.
Members lend their idle computers to Kestrel. Every job runs twice.
Each job runs on two machines and counts only when the answers agree. Each dot on the map is a real machine, shown near its closest large city and never with a name. Each arc is work moving through the network.
From the Constellation network's public feed, read 17:30 UTC.
Legend
- GPU machines
- CPU machines
- Atheron core
- Atheron star
- Market data servers
- Atheron house nodes
- Verifier, checks answers
- Jobs going out
- Answers coming back
- Atheron star checking work
- Market data feeding Atheron star
- Machines checking each other
Live map of the Constellation network: members' machines at their nearest large city, our servers, and the work moving between them. Machines online: 43. Jobs in flight: 3. Verified in the last minute: 0. Running a job: 16. Jobs a minute, last minute: 0. Answers a minute, last minute: 0. Star checks a minute, last minute: 0. Market data rows a minute, 5 min average: 91,297. Verified today: 2,105
Every dot is a member's machine at its nearest large city, moved a little and never named.
- 43
- machines online
- 23 from members, 20 of ours
- 16
- working right now
- 2,105
- answers agreed today
- each one checked twice
- 5
- regions with machines
- each shown by its nearest big city
The rule
Twice, or it does not count.
One rule makes the network trustworthy without trusting any single machine.
Sent twice
Each job goes to two different machines.
Worked alone
Each machine does the job on its own and sends its answer back.
Agree, or it does not count
Matching answers count. If they differ, neither does.
A broken, slow or dishonest computer cannot slip a wrong answer in: it would have to match a stranger's.
That is what lets Kestrel learn on machines we do not own, and still trust what comes back.
This minute
The network, this minute.
The same counters the map reads, as plain numbers.
- 0
- jobs handed out a minute
- 0
- answers back a minute
- 0
- checks a minute
- 0
- answers agreed a minute
- 3
- jobs in flight
Privacy
A city, never a home.
The map shows where the network is, not who is in it.
Nearest large city
Each machine is drawn at its nearest large city, never its own town when that is smaller.
Moved, on purpose
Then moved 6 to 28 km in a direction set fresh each day, so no dot sits on a real place.
No name, no id
No name, no handle, no machine id and no address ever leave the network. A dot is a class and a region.
Busy places show as clusters. Nobody, us included, can point at a dot on this map and say whose it is.
Lend a machine
Lend a machine.
A command line for the always-on box under your desk, or a desktop app with the map on it.
Command line
constellation bind
constellation runLink it to your Atheron account once, then leave it running.
Desktop app
The same network, with the map and your own machine on it.
Lending a machine is under the Constellation Terms, the one versioned text for it. Read them before you lend anything.
Lend us your idle hours.
Your computer naps anyway. Let it check Kestrel's homework.
Kestrel trades on paper until launch. Nothing on this page is financial advice.