What is damocles?

damocles is the next generation venus-sealer, which offers a configurable, expandable and customizable storage power solution for the Filecoin storage providers.

Features

Complete revamp of existing job scheduling

Managing sealing pipeline traditionally not only requires extensive knowledge across sealing mechanism and hardware specifications, but also demand a lot of devOps attentions for maintenance and troubleshooting. By allowing damocles-workers to change the state machine of a sealing sector, instead of having an active and centralized job scheduling model, damocles-cluster introduced a new model that worker itself actively grabs new tasks.

Horizontal scaling of your workers

With extensive configurations damocles supports to optimize your setups, a storage provider can easily take the config file of one worker and apply it to another worker with same hardware specification. Thus enabling ultra fast expansion of a storage provider’s sealing capacity.

Decoupling of Post workers

damocles supports worker machines to be setup as dedicated Post workers, relieve the headache that sealing tasks may compete resources with essential post tasks.

Pooling of worker resources

Thanks to the new scheduling model, storage power services (sealing pipeline and Post workers) by damocles can be used to serve multiple nodes (miner_id). The pooling of workers essentially allows storage providers more flexibility in their deployment and saves hardware resources and operation overhead.

Customized sealing tasks

If storage provider has extensive background in optimizing a particular phase of sealing task, maintaining a forked reference implementation of Filecoin is no longer as damocles allows your custom code to be plugged into the sealing pipeline directly through simple configuration.