# Morphware – Decentralized deep learning **URL:** \ **Category:** Grants\ **Created:** [March 1, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980 "2022-03-01T17:27:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kensotrabing](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kensotrabing/32/8109_2.png) [@kensotrabing](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kensotrabing)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/1 "2022-03-01T17:27:37Z")
## Name of Project Morphware ## Proposal overview Morphware crowdsources latent computing capacity from gaming rigs to train machine learning algorithms. Gaming rigs running Morphware bid on workloads posted the network in a sealed-bid, second-price (i.e., Vickrey) auction and are compensated in MorphwareToken. It is currently live on Ethereum mainnet. The reason this work is important is because the computation capacity required to train a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm doubles approximately every 3.4 months. In contrast, Moore’s Law observes that the number of transistors in a densely integrated circuit double approximately every 18 months; so there’s an enormous gap that is widening. I should also note that data science budgets are ballooning, and that this trend shows no signs of abating. This benefits the blockchain ecosystem because it gives ETH miners an economic substitute to solving computations related to Ethereum’s proof-of-work consensus mechanism, and will be even more beneficial once Ethereum migrates its consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake. Ignoring the cost of gas on Ethereum, earning MorphwareToken (hereafter: MWT) is roughly 2-3x more profitable than mining ETH and we are at least 20% cheaper than running the same workload on relevant Amazon Web Services products (EC2 or SageMaker). ### Usage We launched in January, so we currently have less than a dozen users; but we’re planning on hosting a Kaggle competition to build-out the demand-side of the network. We are in the process of building out the supply-side of the network by deploying worker nodes to blockchain clubs at university campuses. We are deploying one worker-node to the University of British Columbia and have a verbal agreement, at the moment, with Harvard College. ### Milestones We have a variety of milestones that we aim on hitting, this year. The first is getting a miniature data center going in an environment with an extremely low cost of electricity. We have already purchased our first 10 GTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition cards, for this, and are currently in the site selection process for the (server) cabinets. Another milestone is getting the validator node (see: whitepaper) going on mobile. Right now, Morphware only works on laptops and desktops, but we’d love for people to be able to earn MWT on their phones. ### Team _Kenso Trabing_ Kenso taught Bitcoin Core in a lecture series at Princeton University in Spring 2018, and Solidity & IPFS at Yale University in Fall 2018, while working for a FinTech-focused coding bootcamp based out of midtown Manhattan. The year before that he opened up a data science bootcamp in Bangalore, for said bootcamp, and taught the first couple of cohorts there. He previously worked as a senior data scientist at Senary Blockchain Ventures. _Darshan Raju_ Darshan is an engineer at Microsoft. He is the project’s engineering lead. _Anthony Albertorio_ Anthony is the head of developer relations at ConsenSys and has been helping them build their community, for years, and brings a wealth of experience aboard. _Hassan Malik_ Hassan is a smart contract engineer at MetaMask and an active participant in New York’s Ethereum community. He has previously worked as a Solidity developer at AirSwap. _Rebecca Sealfon_ Rebecca has a masters degree in computer science from Columbia University, did her undergrad. at Princeton, and used to work for Google. She’s been creating content for us, which has been featured in high-traffic blogs like Towards Data Science and CoinMonks. _Robert Kinyon_ Robert is a production engineer at Facebook, co-author of a book on the Perl programming language, and contributes to the Ruby programming language. His role is to take Morphware from being a single machine per workload system to a multiple machine per workload system. _Daniel Iñiguez_ Daniel is an electrical engineer and a blockchain developer. He is helping Morphware with a next generation in-house project related to using FPGAs instead of GPUs for certain (computational) tasks. ## Proposal ask $ 235,790 ## Metrics for success Our main metric for success would be 1,000 workloads posted to the network per day. ## External links Website: [https://morphware.org](https://morphware.org) Demo: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1787JwxU\_f9YnOsA\_Hr7HXiosS8K\_xXUF/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1787JwxU_f9YnOsA_Hr7HXiosS8K_xXUF/view?usp=sharing) Whitepaper: [paper/whitepaper.pdf at main · morphware/paper · GitHub](https://github.com/morphware/paper/blob/main/whitepaper.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![Khurram\_Bin\_Kamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/khurram_bin_kamal/32/8100_2.png) [@Khurram\_Bin\_Kamal](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Khurram_Bin_Kamal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/2 "2022-03-01T17:47:26Z")
A great project which will connect data scientist and gamers who have gpu to rent their computational power on a single platform ---
**Author:** ![Asim\_J1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/asim_j1/32/2947_2.png) [@Asim\_J1](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Asim_J1)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/3 "2022-03-01T17:51:06Z")
Hot project for 2022, high demand use-case for industrial and educational sectors made distributed and decentralised! ---
**Author:** ![waheed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@waheed](https://talk.harmony.one/u/waheed)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/4 "2022-03-01T17:55:37Z")
oh wow really needed this kind of project once eth 2.0 is launched ---
**Author:** ![Saqib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Saqib](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Saqib)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/5 "2022-03-01T17:59:27Z")
Wow, an exciting development and a unique concept of utilising machine learning within cryptospace! ---
**Author:** ![Scalpal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@Scalpal](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Scalpal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/6 "2022-03-01T18:03:48Z")
Amazing project and even more amazing team. This has a great future ---
**Author:** ![Halo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/halo/32/8108_2.png) [@Halo](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Halo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/7 "2022-03-01T19:05:04Z")
an innovative and promising, i am very excited about the future and potential of this project ---
**Author:** ![kensotrabing](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kensotrabing/32/8109_2.png) [@kensotrabing](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kensotrabing)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/8 "2022-03-01T19:20:45Z")
Overwhelmed by the support this post is getting! Thank you, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Ebrahim](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/ebrahim/32/2966_2.png) [@Ebrahim](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Ebrahim)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/9 "2022-03-01T20:18:57Z")
Proud to be a part of such a fantastic project with a 5-star team! Keep up the great work guys. ---
**Author:** ![kensotrabing](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kensotrabing/32/8109_2.png) [@kensotrabing](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kensotrabing)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/10 "2022-03-01T20:36:12Z")
Thanks @Ebrahim! We’re glad to have you! ---
**Author:** ![Jet](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/jet/32/8145_2.png) [@Jet](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Jet)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/11 "2022-03-01T23:57:56Z")
Dear Harmony Kenso is really a great guy, he has put together a stellar team and the effort and dedication he has been putting in his project is second to none. I have been on Harmony for nearly a year and in my opinion a project and team like Morphware’s would add value and fit really well within this ecosystem of excellence ---
**Author:** ![danieliniguezv](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/danieliniguezv/32/8151_2.png) [@danieliniguezv](https://talk.harmony.one/u/danieliniguezv)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/12 "2022-03-02T01:16:43Z")
A project, for a change, that is actually buidling something, and quite revolutionary! Amazing to be part of such project and with a great team of really smart people! 🙌 ---
**Author:** ![kensotrabing](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kensotrabing/32/8109_2.png) [@kensotrabing](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kensotrabing)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 4:23am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/13 "2022-03-02T04:23:00Z")
Glad to have you, @danieliniguezv! ---
**Author:** ![ace1009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@ace1009](https://talk.harmony.one/u/ace1009)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/14 "2022-03-02T15:56:07Z")
I am so happy to see a project like this. I often think about the GPU requirements for ML and why no one has created a solution like this. My guess is that its pretty tough but this team looks stacked. Excited to see what this project becomes. If it can earn more than Mining it will be an instant supply side success no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![ganesha](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/ganesha/32/549_2.png) [@ganesha](https://talk.harmony.one/u/ganesha)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/15 "2022-03-02T19:39:00Z")
@kensotrabing can you elaborate on: - how you plan to use harmony? - what are the smaller milestones (q1-q4 this year)? thanks. ---
**Author:** ![kenny](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kenny/32/7566_2.png) [@kenny](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kenny)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/16 "2022-03-02T21:03:54Z")
Hope you’re looking to completely migrate the token over to Harmony to mitigate the high gas costs on Ethereum. Think this project has a lot of potential, wish you the best of luck. ---
**Author:** ![kensotrabing](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kensotrabing/32/8109_2.png) [@kensotrabing](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kensotrabing)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/17 "2022-03-02T21:18:16Z")
Thank you for the kind words! That’s exactly what we’re planning on doing: completely migrating the token over to Harmony to mitigate the high gas costs on Ethereum ---
**Author:** ![kensotrabing](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kensotrabing/32/8109_2.png) [@kensotrabing](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kensotrabing)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/18 "2022-03-02T21:20:10Z")
We plan on using Harmony primarily because of the rapid finality and low cost of gas We would migrate our token over to Harmony, along with our `JobFactory` and `AuctionFactory` contracts I am working on cleaning up the roadmap, now, but here is a high level overview of milestones ranked by impact over effort ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/2X/a/a0a1b7a26144c2f9ef818bdc46fccff227769e46.png) ---
**Author:** ![kensotrabing](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kensotrabing/32/8109_2.png) [@kensotrabing](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kensotrabing)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/19 "2022-03-02T22:27:26Z")
Adding LinkedIn profiles, below, and to the original post, above: - Kenso Trabing: [https://www.linkedin.com/trabing](https://www.linkedin.com/trabing) - Darshan Raju: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/darshan-raju-bb3069164/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/darshan-raju-bb3069164/) - Anthony Albertorio: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyalbertorio/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyalbertorio/) - Hassan Malik: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hassan-b-malik/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hassan-b-malik/) - Rebecca Sealfon: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-sealfon/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-sealfon/) - Robert Kinyon: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/robkinyon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robkinyon) - Daniel Iñiguez: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieliniguezv/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieliniguezv/) **Update:** I can’t update the original post anymore, but I’m happy to answer any and all questions about the team 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kensotrabing](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/kensotrabing/32/8109_2.png) [@kensotrabing](https://talk.harmony.one/u/kensotrabing)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980/20 "2022-03-02T23:40:54Z")
With regards to use of funds, we would put 100% of any funds Harmony invests in Morphware into hardware. We are already in the process of mocking up our first few cabinets (see: first picture below), but a quick rundown of the specific components that go into our worker nodes are: - [GPU] 6x Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition cards, as they are non-LHR - [Motherboard] 1x Asus Prime Z390-P - [Disk] 1x Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD - [RAM] 2x Corsair Vengeance 2400MHz DDR4 sticks - [CPU] 1x Intel i5-9400 LGA 1151 (9th Gen) - [CPU fan] 1x Noctua NH-L9i-17xx, as they are low-profile - [PSU] 2x EVGA 1300 watt, as we would like some redundancy; if one fails. We may actually reconfigure the power distribution within each worker node by getting creative with the harnesses coming from the power supply units, but that’s outside the scope of this comment. There are also a couple of things I won’t go into that much detail on, like the case fans (5x per case); the case itself; PCIe risers; the actual server rack and literal nuts and bolts that come with the case; the cords & cables; and rack-level equipment like power supply units and network switches: but this is a high-level overview of how we would be investing the money into the business. The worker nodes would be deployed to Asunción, Paraguay because of the attractive electricity rates, down there. I have been to Asunción before and have successfully set-up a business overseas before (Byte Academy India), so I’m confident that we will be able to get our first three cabinets up by June 30th, 2022. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/2X/3/3be4d1f2d7a138dec0f497a8681cd4b1ff6463f0.jpeg) [Next page](https://talk.harmony.one/t/morphware-decentralized-deep-learning/12980.md?page=2)