This project is being realized in the context of my master thesis in the Technische Hochschule Ulm (Deutschland), based on an idea I had a few years back.

Balthazar: A peer-to-peer world computer.

Balthacli

The command-line tool to run the node and interact with the network. It serves as an interface to Balthalib for the command-line and contains only code for this purpose.

Balthalib

Contains and regroups all the base elements to use the network found in the libraries given here underneath.

Balthastore

This part manages the different storages used by the system. For now, only IPFS will be implemented but others might come in the future.

Balthaproto

The different protocols used specifically for this system for inter-node communications.

Balthurner

The different elements correpsonding to the execution (runner) environment can be found it this crate.

Balthamisc

Contains different miscelaneous types and functions used by other libraries.

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Running instructions

Building

1. Install the rustup and cargo (See the official Rust website)

2. Run cargo build --release, it will take a long while, continue the next steps in the meantime.

3. In parallel, install the wasm toolchain: rustup target add wasm32-unkown-unkown

4. Run ./build_wasm.sh to compile the example web-assembly program

Running

Note: This information is outdated and won't work anymore.

1. Set up an IPFS daemon locally on default port (See the official website)
2. Run the manager in one terminal cargo run --release
3. Run a worker in another terminal cargo run --release 1, it should automatically detect the manager, but if it doesn't, add one of the manager's addresses, for example cargo run --release 1 /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/3333